Re: Weird behavior of kill-emacs

[Andreas Politz]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Is there a way to work around this behavior?
>
> Why would you want to?

emacs < /dev/null -Q --batch --eval '(progn (ignore-errors (read)) (kill-emacs 
42))'; echo $?

returns with exit code 0, i.e. the argument to kill-emacs is ignored.  I
guess the OP reads from stdin until EOF, which implies a fixed exit code
of 0.

-ap