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Continuation for Emacs: invoking a process on exit?

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: rgm <at> gnu.org, schwab <at> linux-m68k.org, 17036 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rrt <at> sc3d.org
Subject: bug#17036: Continuation for Emacs: invoking a process on exit?
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2022 18:51:39 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Cc: rgm <at> gnu.org,  17036 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  schwab <at> linux-m68k.org,  rrt <at> sc3d.org
> Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2022 16:49:42 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> >   . the exit status of the restarted Emacs is discarded, so it will
> >> >     not be available to the parent program, at least on MS-Windows,
> >> >     and also if execvp fails for some reason;
> >> 
> >> Again, Emacs doesn't exit, so...
> >
> > I meant when the restarted Emacs exits.  It _can_ exit, can't it?
> 
> If you exit from the new process, then you'll get the exit code from
> that next call to `kill-emacs'?

Do you see that returned to the shell?

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