First off, one other question I should have asked earlier— what does the crash log you're getting from the SIGKILL actually show? Is it just random state (whatever your app happened to be doing at the time)? Or does it show a pattern, particularly anything tied to your app’s own quit cycle? One possibility that I didn't cover here is that your app IS getting 'quit', but something is going wrong and stalling things long enough that the system kills you. I see, so quit AppleEvent is kinda like the Windows WM_QUIT message. Yes, except WM_QUIT is like the 'quit', since the AppleEvent came first. Yes, AppleEvents are that old. We definitely will file a bug. Bug number? In the meantime, the documentation for Sudden Termination says it's for shutdown. Unfortunately, the phrasing in our documentation is using trickier wording that it really should. Here's what it actually says: macOS 10.6 and later includes a mechanism that allows the system to log out or shut down more qu
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App & System Services
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Processes & Concurrency
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