[Lazarus] Finding out how a program's being terminated

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

waldo kitty wrote:
> On 2/16/2013 08:30, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
>> Procedures even may be different for Linux and Windows, depending on the
>> signal/message types. Even if a program can ignore SIGTERM, can it 
>> also inform
>> the system that it doesn't *want* to close? On Windows a program can 
>> stop an
>> shutdown, maybe not on other platforms.
> 
> i have exactly this problem to deal with on *nix... my app needs to be 
> allowed to complete its shutdown closeout procedures or there are 
> problems on the next boot when it is started up... on shutdown, app 
> managed data is removed from a living data file to another file for 
> restoration on startup... this takes longer than 5 seconds and it hurts 
> at times when the system sigkills the app :/

/Why/ is it taking longer than five seconds? Are you using the iptables 
program to manipulate individual rules, or going directly to the API?

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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