Re: Quitting all active applications
Re: Quitting all active applications
- Subject: Re: Quitting all active applications
- From: "Clark Cox" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:45:38 -0700
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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