process sentinel and kill-emacs

process sentinel and kill-emacs

[JD Smith]

Should a process's sentinel not run when kill-emacs is invoked with
running processes?  It appears the sentinel is not run (despite the
prompting in save-buffer-kill-emacs: "Active processes exist; kill them
and exit anyway?").  Any suggested workaround?

JD

Re: process sentinel and kill-emacs

[Richard Stallman]

    Should a process's sentinel not run when kill-emacs is invoked with
    running processes?  It appears the sentinel is not run (despite the
    prompting in save-buffer-kill-emacs: "Active processes exist; kill them
    and exit anyway?").  Any suggested workaround?

Why is it vital to run sentinels when you are killing Emacs anyway?

Re: process sentinel and kill-emacs

[JD Smith]

On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 10:52 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
>     Should a process's sentinel not run when kill-emacs is invoked with
>     running processes?  It appears the sentinel is not run (despite the
>     prompting in save-buffer-kill-emacs: "Active processes exist; kill them
>     and exit anyway?").  Any suggested workaround?
> 
> Why is it vital to run sentinels when you are killing Emacs anyway?

In my case, because the sentinel is writing out a comint input history
log, which you'd like to preserve even if the shell isn't cleanly
exited.

Re: process sentinel and kill-emacs

[Chong Yidong]

JD Smith <jdsmith@as.arizona.edu> writes:

> On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 10:52 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
>>     Should a process's sentinel not run when kill-emacs is invoked with
>>     running processes?  It appears the sentinel is not run (despite the
>>     prompting in save-buffer-kill-emacs: "Active processes exist; kill them
>>     and exit anyway?").  Any suggested workaround?
>> 
>> Why is it vital to run sentinels when you are killing Emacs anyway?
>
> In my case, because the sentinel is writing out a comint input history
> log, which you'd like to preserve even if the shell isn't cleanly
> exited.

Try putting something on kill-emacs-hook.

Re: process sentinel and kill-emacs

[JD Smith]

On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 15:25 -0400, Chong Yidong wrote:
> JD Smith <jdsmith@as.arizona.edu> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 10:52 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
> >>     Should a process's sentinel not run when kill-emacs is invoked with
> >>     running processes?  It appears the sentinel is not run (despite the
> >>     prompting in save-buffer-kill-emacs: "Active processes exist; kill them
> >>     and exit anyway?").  Any suggested workaround?
> >> 
> >> Why is it vital to run sentinels when you are killing Emacs anyway?
> >
> > In my case, because the sentinel is writing out a comint input history
> > log, which you'd like to preserve even if the shell isn't cleanly
> > exited.
> 
> Try putting something on kill-emacs-hook.

Thanks, that works (though it seems a bit inelegant, compared to calling
the process sentinel when kill-emacs kills the process).