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

[Jan Djärv]

Ulrich Mueller skrev 2010-10-24 11.17:
> > > > > > On Sun, 24 Oct 2010, Jan Djärv wrote:
>
> > > > 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?
> > >
> > > Things that might ask questions should be on
> > > kill-emacs-query-functions, not kill-emacs-hook, shouldn't they?
>
> > Not sure. Things like desktop.el doesn't want to cancel the
> > shutdown, just ask some questions. The message that started this
> > thread "The current server still has clients; delete them? (yes or
> > no)" is from a function run from delete-frame-functions, which is
> > run by delete-frame.
>
> As far as I can see, the question is asked in function server-start.
> Which in turn is called from kill-emacs-hook via function server-mode.

Correct, I must have looked at the wrong function.

        Jan D.

> Also it doesn't make any difference if one answers the question with
> yes or with no. The shutdown will proceed in either case.
>
> Ulrich