NeatNit comments on Closing programs

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 71 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Stop spreading this lie. Linux has a more graceful shutdown process than Windows ever did. It doesn't abruptly kill everything.

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[+] Bazell@lemmy.zip 22 points 9 months ago (1 child)

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[–] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Well, I don't know whether it's by default, but systemd does so - if the program doesn't close in a timely manner (or there is an exception configured)

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[–] chaospatterns@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Windows has something called the ShutdownBlockReasonCreate API which enables apps with long running operations to prevent a shutdown to avoid corruption or losing work.

Is there an equivalent for Linux? When used appropriately, it makes shut downs even more graceful.

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[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 9 months ago

I don't know the technical details, all I know is that if I click Shut Down while I have unsaved work open, it tells me about it and doesn't just kill everything.

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[–] kogasa@programming.dev 4 points 9 months ago

Systemd has something like this. I don't know if the kernel itself does.

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