From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

You run anything on your servers? A lot of (but not all of) the server apps
handle system shutdowns correctly. It's one reason why you have the UPS
units that are connected to the server(s) with USB (or serial port or
whatever) - the idea is that they send a request to the system to shut down
in time before the battery runs out, and the system then sends the shutdown
message to all processes running. It's up to the software writers to
actually handle the graceful shutdown.

It's not very common to handle it properly in non-server apps, but it's not
too difficult either, so it could be done for an app that processes data
for long periods of time.


Antti Kurenniemi

"Geo"  wrote in message news:44537dd5{at}w3....
>I don't know of any software that saves your files before your machine
>shuts
> down.
>
> Autocad does have an autosave feature, but it's on a timer and it doesn't
> overwrite your drawing file, it saves to an autosave file. They came up
> with
> that because it crashes a lot.
>
> Pretty much anything else I use asks the user if they want to save before
> shutting down.
>
> Geo.
>
> "Antti Kurenniemi" 
wrote in message
> news:4452f85b$1{at}w3....
>> 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

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