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

[Jan Djärv]

Chong Yidong skrev 2010-10-24 18.06:
> 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?

That would be fine as long as code has something to look for.  We would have 
to go through those that out themselves into kill-emacs-hook and modify them, 
perhaps starting with server.el and desktop.el first.

        Jan D.