Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Jun 1998 09:31:28 +0100 (BST) | From | Riley Williams <> | Subject | Re: Speaking of SysRQ... |
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Hi Dale
>> Better still would be to have it ask every application to quit and >> save any work in progress first like WinDoze does, but that's >> probably asking too much...
> Well, actually, when I process gets a SIGTERM, that's what it > should do. So you send SIGTERM to every process, they die nicely, > you do a sync, everything gets written to disk, then you reboot the > machine. ;)
I note that "should" is the operative word there, and would also guess that far too many programs don't bother with that aspect of things...
Best wishes from Riley.
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