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

[Miles Bader]

Jason Rumney <address@hidden> writes:
> Another case for not running kill-emacs-hook for SIGTERM is that some
> elisp packages seem to get themselves into inconsistent states (semantic
> is terrible for this) where they throw errors from kill-emacs-hook, so
> the user is forced to kill emacs using SIGTERM. Changing SIGTERM to also
> run kill-emacs-hook would mean only SIGKILL can kill emacs in these
> circumstances.

Well not really -- there are plenty of other signals to choose from!

-Miles

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