Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 20385
Q-PCD Quality-2 [Signal Handling]
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:13:27 UTC
Source Experienced Unix User Category Stability Customer Need/Problem If SO/OOo is hung under Unix, you have only one chance to kill it properly (to preserve work): you can send a SIGABRT or SIGSEGV to cause it to save files that have been edited into the crash recovery area. Product Requirement More obvious signal choice, and increased number of signals, to gracefully terminate SO/OOo. First and foremost SIGHUP should cause this graceful termination, as should other signals like SIGTERM and SIGQUIT. Comment - Eng Effort - Eng Owner Matthias Huetsch Product Concept 1) The SO signal handling code needs to be fixed: a) for proper handling of asynchronously delivered signals to a multithreaded process, and b) for proper cooperation with an in-process Java Virtual Machine or other possibly conflicting runtime environments. 2) The chosen graceful termination signals (HUP, QUIT, TERM) then need to be propagated to and interpreted appropriately by the SO Application Framework. Functional Specification -
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added keyword Q-PCD
according to the announcement on releases (http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=releases&msgNo=7503) this issue will be re-targeted to OOo Later.