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   Vincent Coen to Wilfred van Velzen   
   Semaphore   
   17 Jan 21 16:54:50   
   
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   TID: MBSE-FIDO 1.0.7.21 (GNU/Linux-x86_64)   
   Hello Wilfred!   
      
   Sunday January 17 2021 16:54, you wrote to Marc Lewis:   
      
    > Hi Marc,   
      
    > On 2021-01-17 09:20:03, you wrote to All:   
      
    ML>> Is it possible to code in (in a future release) a mechanism to   
    ML>> make binkd exit (shut down) by seeing a semaphore in a given   
    ML>> directory? Internet Rex had this, when it saw "REXEXIT.NOW" in   
    ML>> the semaphore directory.   
      
    > I'm wondering why you would need that?   
      
    > And doesn't OS2 have a way to kill running software? In linux you can   
    > 'kill' it by PID or program name, so you don't need a semaphore file   
    > for this kind of mechanism...   
      
   There is a difference for terminate and kill even more so for multi   
   user platforms.   
      
      
   Vincent   
      
   --- Mageia Linux v7.1 X64/Mbse v1.0.7.17/GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20180707   
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