From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: how to cleanly stop emacs daemon from commandline? Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2016 11:45:55 +0300 Message-ID: <83r37z9m0s.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87h98vcvn6.fsf@pobox.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1475398009 11646 195.159.176.226 (2 Oct 2016 08:46:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2016 08:46:49 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 02 10:46:46 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bqcPt-0001ft-WB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Oct 2016 10:46:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58604 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bqcPp-0008QK-M7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Oct 2016 04:46:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43724) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bqcPC-0008Pz-VO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Oct 2016 04:45:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bqcP7-0003fo-VO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Oct 2016 04:45:53 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:44021) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bqcP7-0003fT-Re for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Oct 2016 04:45:49 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:3631 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bqcP5-0001Tr-Mf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Oct 2016 04:45:48 -0400 In-reply-to: <87h98vcvn6.fsf@pobox.com> (message from Tom Roche on Sat, 01 Oct 2016 19:49:49 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:111433 Archived-At: > From: Tom Roche > Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2016 19:49:49 -0700 > > summary: I have tried several variations of > > $ emacsclient -e '(your-elisp-here)' > > and have found none that would cause a running `emacs --daemon` process (EDP) to stop "cleanly" as defined by T.V. Raman (below): > > 1. release all locks (I have tested only desktop lock) > 2. stop (e.g., such that `pgrep -l emacs` no longer shows its PID) > > Is there no way to do this? Conversely, is the EDP designed to run until brutally whacked? (with, e.g., `kill -9 ${PID}`) "emacsclient --eval '(kill-emacs)'" works for me, with Emacs 25.1 at least.