After starting from command line bitocoind, it can require minutes to have bitocoind to be real responsive, for example:
`$ ./bitcoin-cli stop`
`error: {"code":-28,"message":"Activating best chain..."}`

In such situation, I had sometimes to "kill -9" bitcoind to stop it.
I would like to be able to stop bitcoind in clean way.

p.s.:
`$ uname -a`
`Darwin isghe.local 14.4.0 Darwin Kernel Version 14.4.0: Thu May 28 11:35:04 PDT 2015; root:xnu-2782.30.5~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64`

for (int fileNumber = 0; fileNumber < nLastBlockFile; fileNumber++) {
            nBytesToPrune = vinfoBlockFile[fileNumber].nSize + vinfoBlockFile[fileNumber].nUndoSize;
            if (vinfoBlockFile[fileNumber].nSize == 0)
                continue;
            if (nCurrentUsage + nBuffer < nPruneTarget)  
                break;
            
            if (vinfoBlockFile[fileNumber].nHeightLast > nLastBlockWeCanPrune)
                continue;
            PruneOneBlockFile(fileNumber);
            
            setFilesToPrune.insert(fileNumber);
            nCurrentUsage -= nBytesToPrune;
            count++;
        }
    }
    LogPrint("prune", "Prune: target=%dMiB actual=%dMiB diff=%dMiB max_prune_height=%d removed %d blk/rev pairs\n",
           nPruneTarget/1024/1024, nCurrentUsage/1024/1024,
           ((int64_t)nPruneTarget - (int64_t)nCurrentUsage)/1024/1024,
           nLastBlockWeCanPrune, count);
}
bool CheckDiskSpace(uint64_t nAdditionalBytes)
{
    uint64_t nFreeBytesAvailable = boost::filesystem::space(GetDataDir()).available;
    
    if (nFreeBytesAvailable < nMinDiskSpace + nAdditionalBytes)
        return AbortNode("Disk space is low!", _("Error: Disk space is low!"));
    return true;
}
FILE* OpenDiskFile(const CDiskBlockPos &pos, const char *prefix, bool fReadOnly)