if you shutdown your pc and have apps open the apps don't "stop" the shutdown and ask to save

[Tom Diehl]

On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, lupus wrote:

> If you shutdown your pc and have apps open the apps don't stop the
> shutdown and ask to save. Is this the fault of the apps developers or is
> because there is no function to "stop" shutdown by an app?

B.

If you tell a *nix box to shutdown it will do that. Think about the box
that has 100 users logged into it with various apps open. If no one is
there to save the data and open apps stops the shutdown you would never be
able to shutdown your box.

Tom