Re: process sentinel and kill-emacs

[Chong Yidong]

JD Smith <address@hidden> 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.