Re: [Evolution] Mismatch between subject and message contents

[Lee Revell <rlrevell joe-job com>]

On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 16:32 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 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.

But Evo takes a long time to exit (30 seconds or so) as it waits until
exit time to purge and write out all mail folders.  Most distros don't
give processes nearly this long to exit.

Lee