From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: have emacs use SIGTERM to end a process instead of SIGHUP Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 11:19:31 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1373383228 2983 80.91.229.3 (9 Jul 2013 15:20:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 15:20:28 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 09 17:20:30 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UwZiQ-0005Av-6v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Jul 2013 17:20:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54119 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UwZiP-0008Qp-PJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Jul 2013 11:20:29 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!barmar.motzarella.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Injection-Info: barmar.motzarella.org; posting-host="2be9e9f5dd9af768b8861af71b85fc28"; logging-data="15238"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1908extl+Xev5fSI6N+30t6" User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Cancel-Lock: sha1:HdVEXVZLt7tndsiuY6gtsKj4bWo= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:199760 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:92027 Archived-At: In article , John Leach wrote: > Hi, > > I'm starting a process using start-process-shell-command, but the > command I'm running doesn't exit when it receives a SIGHUP (it reloads > it's configs or something) so I end up with orphaned processes hanging > around when I close the buffer or exit emacs. That's really strange behavior for a non-daemon process. Wouldn't it have the same problem if you ran it from a normal terminal and disconnected? SIGHUP is the expected signal when a process's terminal goes away. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***