I'm working on a Java application that utilises shutdown hooks in order to clean up on termination/interruption of the program, but I've noticed that Cygwin's implementation of CTRL-C doesn't seem ...

How can I test if exit is clean in a shutdown function in PHP? By clean exit I mean that the script was not terminated due to an error.

I have a rather complicated shutdown in Java - there's a lot of clean up work to do. In particular I'm trying to figure out how to error handle from a shutdown hook thread. My code includes this cu...

There's a bit of a clash for whether shutdown hooks, which are of class Thread, run their runnable code on the thread on which the shutdown was called, or run on themselves. addShutdownHook takes ...

I have a specialized logger class which uses the java.util.logging.Logger class. I want to be able to use this logger in the shutdown hook of another class. However, it doesn't seem to log at shutd...

I'm using a licensed API which has a method to acquire/release a license object from a license server that has a finite number of licenses. At the beginning of my application, I call the method to ...

I am trying to get a shutdown hook to work on my ubuntu server, however I seem to have an issue with more than one thread. Using the a basic ShutdownHook, the following bit of code does work when I...

When I press ctrl-c in console in what sequence are application threads stopped and shutdown hooks called?

I have java application which shutdowns correctly when i use CTRL-C, java application saves all data before shutdown. Now i trying to shutdown this java application from my C# console application u...

I have the following code: (ns test-hook.core) (defn -main [] (.addShutdownHook (Runtime/getRuntime) (Thread. #(println "shutdown"))) (println "start") (doseq [i (range 1 6)] (Thread/sleep 10...

Follow up from previous question If you've read the previous question an alternative title may be: How often should my daemon check to see if it's been interrupted?

When extending AbstractProcessor, there is a possibility to override init(...), but there is no "opposite" method, which would be called after all rounds were processed. This is a problem: when yo...

I have a critical process running in java (1.6), with a registered shutdown hook. In some instance where I get a OOM issue (more details below about the issue), the process stops suddenly, I don't ...

Is it possible to invoke a function when a cron process is killed from the command line (via Ctrl+c) or with the kill command? I have tried register_shutdown_function(), but it doesn't seem to be ...

I'm trying to make sure my Java application takes reasonable steps to be robust, and part of that involves shutting down gracefully. I am reading about shutdown hooks and I don't actually get how t...