#shutDown: and OS events

Randal L. Schwartz merlyn at stonehenge.com
Wed Jan 16 21:17:42 UTC 2008


>>>>> "Brian" == Brian Brown <rbb at techgame.net> writes:

Brian> Is there a mechanism for Squeak to handle an OS request to exit, such
Brian> as someone rebooting their machine? It seems that the #shutDown:
Brian> machinery would not be triggered in that case and any image changes
Brian> would be lost in those cases.

If you're talking about Unix, most versions of Unix that I've seen send a
SIGHUP to every process and wait a bit before actually shutting down.

You can set up a wait-for-SIGHUP with UnixProcess (part of OSProcess),
and take appropriate action when you see it.

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