Re: Speaking of SysRQ...

D.A. Harris (rodmur@ecst.csuchico.edu)
Wed, 10 Jun 1998 18:41:28 -0700

On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 10:15:38PM +0100, Riley Williams wrote:
>
> 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. ;)

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