From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

I know, I didn't mean it like "your own fault for not saving
data". I'm just saying that a good app design would help in cases like
this, where something unexpected happens. Simply shutting down the system
automagically is really a shitty thing to do for an update.


Antti Kurenniemi

"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
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>
> While I cannot disagree completely with your suggestion, what if the
> user didn't want the process to stop?
>
> The root problem here is that Microsoft took control of PCs, and killed
> running processes.
>
> /m
>
> On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 22:09:37 +0300, "Antti Kurenniemi"
>  wrote:
>
>>And any program such as this ray tracing one, which run for long time,
>>should check for system shutdown messages that are dispatched to all
>>processes when winoze is shutting down, and save the work to a disk...
>>
>>
>>Antti Kurenniemi

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