On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 02:47:30PM -0400, David T Hollis wrote: > applications get a signal that they are being shutdown and they can > respond to it. This is where Word would ask you to save your file, etc. > The downside is that applications can prevent the logoff/shutdown from > happening and that can cause maddening system 'hangs'. Is there such a > signal that Linux/UNIX apps receive? Does it come from X, Gnome/KDE? X session management for the case of logout. For the case of administrator initiated shutdown they get SIGTERM a few seconds and SIGKILL
