Re: Call in the SWAT team to shoot emacs but spare Firefox

[Jean Magnan de Bornier]

jidanni@jidanni.org wrote :

| I can't take it any longer.
| I start Firefox by one of the million ways one can there in emacs.
| Then hours later I wish to quit emacs, but...
|    Active processes exist; kill them and exit anyway? (yes or no)
| That's right. Emacs demands taking Firefox along with it to the grave,
| It's either that, or it refuses to quit.
| What do I have to do? Call in the SWAT team to shoot emacs but spare
| its hostage Firefox? Yeah well I bet emacs has wrapped a bomb around
| them both so there will be no survivors ("Shoot me and I'll take out the
| whole process tree, motherf***er!")
| So does one need to write a batch(1) job wrapper script to start Firefox
| away from the hands of terrorism? Why can't there be a third answer to
|    Active processes exist; kill them and exit anyway? (yes or no)
| i.e., "No. Don't kill them, but exit anyway."
| What kind of cheap 2nd hand Woolworth's software can't do that these days?
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And if you start firefox from a shell, and then you kill the shell, will not
firefox be killed? And without notice: emacs is more polite than the shell!
-- 
Jean