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

[Tassilo Horn]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> > If SIGTERM is used to programmatically shut down Emacs, I think it's
>> > rather a conceptual bug in whatever uses SIGTERM for that purpose.
>> 
>> Huh?  SIGTERM is *the canonical way* to programmatically shut down an
>> application via a signal.
>
> From _outside_ Emacs, yes.  Which isn't the case here.

When emacs is started with --daemon users (me!) forget to kill it
manually, and so init does it when the whole system shuts down.  That's
not from _outside_ Emacs?

> Anyway, Dan suggested a better way long ago, so it's IMO pointless to
> continue this argument.

Do you have a message-id / url at hand?

Bye,
Tassilo