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.