>> 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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