From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Geo"  wrote in message news:4452fc7f{at}w3....
>> 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...
>
> I don't think the authors ever figured Microsoft would be remotely
> rebooting
> users machines so it doesn't have that feature. It does popup a message
> asking if you want to save when you close it but there was nobody around
> to
> hit yes before the machine shuts down.

Not many apps handle that properly, it's quite uncommon - but on the other
hand it's not difficult to do. The windows message for shutdown is separate
from application shutdown, so they could check it and do an application
shutdown like a normal app close, but simply assuming the user clicks
"Yes" to save all data. Takes about 10 lines of code to do
properly, and I've only seen two or three apps ever do it right - even
server stuff sometimes doesn't do this properly.

...and I'm still not saying it's ok for MS to shutdown the machine automagically.


Antti Kurenniemi

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