From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Functions in kill-emacs-hook aren't run if emacs gets killed with SIGTERM Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:37:39 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87prihxeu5.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> <87ab9iggl0.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> <200901232033.n0NKXJ3p017121@rodan.ics.uci.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1232750292 2706 80.91.229.12 (23 Jan 2009 22:38:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 22:38:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: tassilo@member.fsf.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 23 23:39:24 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LQUgI-0007lu-6O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:39:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60988 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LQUf0-0000Gz-Kf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:37:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LQUev-0000Gu-S1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:37:53 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LQUeu-0000Gi-C2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:37:52 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48076 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LQUeu-0000Gf-6q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:37:52 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout6.012.net.il ([84.95.2.16]:9087) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LQUet-0003BN-Pi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:37:52 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.i-mtaout6.012.net.il by i-mtaout6.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KDY00H003ULHI00@i-mtaout6.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:38:06 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.6.113]) by i-mtaout6.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KDY002WH47643W0@i-mtaout6.012.net.il>; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:38:06 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <200901232033.n0NKXJ3p017121@rodan.ics.uci.edu> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (1203?) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:108166 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:33:19 -0800 (PST) > From: Dan Nicolaescu > Cc: Tassilo Horn , monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, > emacs-devel@gnu.org > > The safest thing to do is run > emacsclient --eval "(save-buffers-kill-emacs)". That is, of course, much better than delivering a signal. > Relying on things getting saved properly on SIGTERM/SIGUSR* is just not a good > idea. 100% agreement.