Need app-specific shutdown delay to allow saving state

[Scott James Remnant]

On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 15:27 -0800, Jim Avera wrote:

> Hi, Does anyone know if work is being done to allow applications to
> control how much time they get to gracefully exit during system
> shut-down?   Currently it is 10 seconds, hard-coded
> in /etc/init.d/{sendsigs,killprocs} .  This is the max time between
> kill -15 and kill -9.   If so, please point me to the appropriate
> place.
> 
This only applies to processes left running.

The simplest way to control an app's own shutdown is for that
application to install its own init script with a K* name.

Scott
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Scott James Remnant
scott at canonical.com
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