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Why does OS X (and seemingly since day 1) more often than not need you to choose Force Quit twice in order for the app to actually force quit? It's always been weird to me. I just had Word and Finder hang on me, and each needed to be Force Quit twice to actually terminate. Technically what is going on behind the scenes to make that necessary?
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I would presume there are actually more than one hung process within Word. So the first time you're FQ'ing something, it's killing say the hung up UI process, then the second time you're quitting the hung application.
If you check your system log, it may show the back to back FQ's and what was nuked with each one. Google is your frenemy. Caveat Emptor - Latin for tough titty I tend to interpret things in the way that's most hilarious to me |
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I've noticed the same thing most of the time too, and I don't know why it happens either. Pretty sure it doesn't matter if there are child processes at play, iirc.
My best guess (no evidence here) is that maybe it's behaving like the command-line kill program. By default, kill sends a "term" signal, but if the process is misbehaving or catching the signal, you have to send the "kill" signal which can't be caught. Maybe in an analogous way OSX is trying to "politely" kill the app before pulling the big guns? |
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I've noticed this as well. Sometime I've had to FQ more than twice, although mostly with apps running in full screen mode.
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