Re: Functions in kill-emacs-hook aren't run if emacs gets killed with SIGTERM

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Andreas Schwab <address@hidden>
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>,
>       address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 11:08:32 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > SIGUSRn are different in that they are ``soft'', and are not generally
> > expected to interrupt code in dangerous state.
> 
> SIGUSR[12] are not softer than SIGTERM in any way, all terminate the
> process by default, and can interrupt the process in any state.

I meant the accepted practices of their use, not the underlying signal
delivery mechanism.