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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 20:49:09 +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 18:02:15 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Btw, calling 'error' in this place, which we also do on Posix
> > platforms, is not very useful: this is past the call to
> > shut_down_emacs, so all 'error' does at this point is exit with an
> > error status, and the error message is lost.  Something to keep in
> > mind, I guess.
> 
> It prints the error message OK on Debian, at least, but I guess
> emacs_perror is the function to use here?

I guess so.  Although that will be lost as well if Emacs is invoked as
a GUI program from some desktop shortcut or in some other fancy way
which redirects the standard handles to the great void...

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