Re: Emacs daemon doesn't terminate on SIGTERM any more

[Chong Yidong]

Jan Djärv <address@hidden> writes:

> This was done so that kill-emacs-hook is run.  For example, desktop.el
> will then save its desktop when logging out from Gnome/KDE.
>
> What Emacs needs is some sort of notion of when user interaction is
> not OK. For SIGTERM it is almost never ok, as it might be the window
> manager/system/whatever that is shutting down.  Even desktop.el will
> try to ask questions sometimes (i.e. desktop-save is set but there is
> no desktop file yet), which is annoying.  Maybe introduce some
> interaction-ok-p predicate?

How about it, in response to a kill signal, we do

  noninteractive = 1;

before calling Fkill_emacs?