Re: Exit hooks not run at logout on w32

[Jason Rumney]

Lennart Borgman wrote:
> As far as I can see the exit hooks for Emacs are not run when a user 
> logs out from Windows 2000 or reboots the pc. I do not know however if 
> this problem is specific to w32. It is in my opinion a serious problem 
> that ought to be fixed before the release.
I'm not sure they can be run reliably. The system gives Emacs (or any 
other application) a short amount of time to exit cleanly before issuing 
the equivalent of a kill -9. Since such hooks often involve user 
interaction, there is no guarantee that we will finish in time, so the 
safest thing to do is to just make sure all autosave files are written 
before exiting so that the user can recover their session later.