Michael Dautermann wrote:
Is this work you could do with a non-GUI tool that launches as the
app quits? Unix style tools or apps (the kind one can launch from
the Terminal command line) don't have dock icons nor do they appear
in the command-tab list. You'd still have other potential issues
to worry about (like if your user restarts your main app while the
previously-quit tasks are running, or what happens if multiple
quitting tasks are going).
If it were me, I'd try to avoid anything that delays quitting
(because that could delay a shutdown or reboot, severely annoying
your customer).
Running a non-GUI tool will also delay a shutdown or reboot, so it
doesn't really solve anything in this case. Either the original app
has to run to completion, or the non-GUI tool has to run to
completion, and either way takes the same amount of elapsed time.
To the OP: please explain the context in more detail. It would help
to know what this essential several-minute task actually is, and why
it must run at quit time. It would also help to know if the task is
fundamentally uninterruptible/atomic (must always run to completion
once started).
-- GG
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