Re: Exit hooks not run at logout on w32

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>]

David Kastrup wrote:
> Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se> writes:
>
>   
>> Jason Rumney wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> As I said at the start of the thread, it would be correct for Emacs
>>> to flush its autosave buffers to disk at this point, but not to
>>> start asking all the questions that save-buffers-kill-emacs
>>> does. What if Emacs is on a secondary monitor, and the Graphics
>>> driver shuts it off when it receives the shutdown message? Emacs
>>> will be delaying shutdown waiting for a response, while the user
>>> cannot see it.
>>>       
>> The problem with autosave is that data might be lost if the user
>> happens to use some other tool to edit the files afterwards.
>>     
>
> Tough.  That's what "editing" means.  I don't want changes saved
> without my saying so: that might end up the file in a terminally ill
> state, like when I cut out a large region for the purpose of pasting
> it somewhere else, and then Emacs shuts down.
>
> Recovering a session is good enough for me.
>   
I think this must be a misunderstanding. No one is talking about saving 
changes without the user saying so. The purpose of the patch is that 
Emacs should be able to ask the user at logooff/shutdown to save the 
changes. The situation now is that the changes are thrown away if they 
are not saved before.

This patch is only for w32 but I really hope the situation is better on 
other platforms. If not I would encourage change.