Re: [Evolution] Mismatch between subject and message contents

["Patrick O'Callaghan" <poc usb ve>]

Depends what you mean by "shut down". The shutdown utility on Linux
sends a signal which processes can trap and gives them a little time to
clean up. Only then does it kill them preemptively. A properly-written
application should never get into an inconsistent state because of the
system being shut down, and in fact I haven't seen Evo misbehaving in
this way.

A different issue is what happens if you lose power or just close the
laptop lid without warning. Not all Linux distros handle
suspend-and-resume gracefully.

poc

On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 14:09 -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> that's a question to ask the kernel hackers :)
> 
> On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 14:01 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 10:31 -0600, Jeff Nelson wrote:
> > > I shut down my notebook without first exiting evolution and that lead
> > > to the new corruption. Deleting the index files caused new ones to be
> > > generated.
> > 
> > Why can't Linux handle this gracefully like Windows?  On that OS when I
> > shut down all the apps are closed in an orderly fashion, with an
> > opportunity to save any unsaved work, etc.  On Linux it seems to just
> > blithely kill everything.
> > 
> > Lee
> > 
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