Re: Quitting all active applications

• Subject: Re: Quitting all active applications
• From: Martin Stoufer <email@hidden>
• Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:52:30 -0700
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Now I'm interested into finding out why this isn't the case.

GUI applications do not generally handle SIGTERM (or any other signals
for that matter). Killing GUI applications is a Bad Thing™ :)

Randal is correct, this will lose your saved data in any currently
open applications.

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Martin Stoufer <email@hidden> wrote:

Actually no, since the default kill signal is TERM, apps will be allowed to
prompt to save if necessary. This assumes the app is handling that signal
properly. We could send KILL or ABRT and that would just end the processes
w/o any save options.

Randall Meadows wrote:

On Aug 28, 2008, at 10:46 AM, Martin Stoufer wrote:

A small app that utilized an NSTask object whose system command would be
'killall -u <your short username here> -m <regex>'.

And that would be a great way to lose data, if any of the applications
getting killed had unsaved documents.

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