Thomas devreese to netbsd-help@netbsd.org about laptop shutdown with power...:

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> All programs seem to get killed instantly too, which can be a problem if you
> haven't saved all your work in advance. Isn't it possible to let the kernel
> send each process an ordinary stop signal so a program can propose to save
> the changes a user made?

You probably want to run powerd(8).

kind regards,
dieter


>
> greetings,
> Thomas

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