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 PROTECTED]> 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. >> > > -- > * Martin C. Stoufer * > * ISS/IT * > * Lawrence Berkeley National Lab * > * 510-486-5306 * > * MS 937-700 * > > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/clarkcox3%40gmail.com > > This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Clark S. Cox III [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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