Subject: Re: bug#28542: Temporary failure in name resolution while quitting emacs

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2020 13:41:57 -0500

Robert Pluim wrote:

>>> No, I was talking about the interactive case.  Are you assuming that
>>> in the interactive case it is always possible to ask a question and
>>> get a response from the user?
>>
>> Isn't that usually the case?
>
> Iʼd say most of the time, but given the (incomprehensible to me)
> enthusiasm for running 'emacs --daemon', I wouldn't be surprised if
> there were cases where itʼs not true.

See https://debbugs.gnu.org/13697

Putting anything on kill-emacs-hook that may need user input will hang
Emacs in certain circumstances. (The lispref text on this reads clearly to me.)