When you actually work with especially embedded devices, you know that there's a big difference. Powerloss/SIGKILL must not corrupt/break your data/application.

When you actually work with especially embedded devices, you know that there's a big difference. Powerloss/SIGKILL must not corrupt/break your data/application. That is _not_ the same thing as for a network application for instance being nice and sending goodbye messages, cleaning up resources like closing fd's etc upon a SIGTERM. So no you design for being robust and to handle SIGTERM if applicable. You can never know when you'll get killed, that's why your design have to be solid all the way through.