Need app-specific shutdown delay to allow saving state

[Ted Gould]

On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 13:12 +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> 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.

Would it be possible to generically contact gnome-session and ask it to
shutdown the system?  I'm not sure how to get all the user's DBus
Session Buses, but it would seem if you could you'd get a more graceful
shutdown if done at the command line or by another user on the system.

		--Ted

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