How Does A Computer Know When It Wasn T Properly Shut Down
Today’s Question & Answer session comes to us courtesy of SuperUser—a subdivision of Stack Exchange, a community-drive grouping of Q&A web sites. The Question SuperUser reader FrozenKing wants to know how his computer knows when it has crashed or otherwise had an improper shutdown. He writes: It’s an interesting question; clearly modern operating systems are well aware that something has gone wrong, but by what mechanism are they made aware?...