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Re: [MiNT] Errors while shutting down



On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Mario Becroft wrote:

> I noticed a lot of messages scroll past just before the
> machine rebooted which were too quick to read but I managed
> to catch some words which read something similar to "OPEN
> FILEPTR detected."
> 
> I suppose that this is not the expected behaviour. 

This is caused by applications that forget to close all currently
opened files before exiting, when they receive the KILL signal.
...as far as I can tell, anyhow.

Btw, Shutdown 0.8d uploaded to Funet.

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