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|    Vincent Coen to Wilfred van Velzen    |
|    Semaphore    |
|    17 Jan 21 16:54:50    |
      REPLY: 2:280/464 60045e10       MSGID: 2:250/1@fidonet 60046c0d       CHRS: UTF-8 2       TZUTC: 0000       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        * Origin: Air Applewood, The Linux Gateway to the UK & Eire (2:250/1)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 10/0 1 15/0 16/101 19/36 20/4609 25/0 21 90/1 102/401       SEEN-BY: 103/705 105/81 106/201 116/18 120/331 340 123/131 140 124/5016       SEEN-BY: 128/2 129/305 153/757 7715 154/10 203/0 214/22 218/0 1 401       SEEN-BY: 218/410 700 720 802 840 221/0 222/2 226/30 227/114 229/101       SEEN-BY: 229/200 424 426 550 664 1016 1017 230/150 152 240/1120 2100       SEEN-BY: 240/5138 5411 5832 5853 6309 249/109 206 307 317 250/0 1       SEEN-BY: 250/2 4 5 8 32 261/38 100 263/0 266/512 267/155 275/100 280/464       SEEN-BY: 280/5003 5555 282/1031 1056 288/100 291/100 111 292/854 8125       SEEN-BY: 310/31 320/119 219 322/757 340/400 341/66 342/200 396/45       SEEN-BY: 423/120 460/58 640/1321 712/848 770/1 801/161 189 2320/105       SEEN-BY: 2432/390 2452/250 2454/119 3634/12       PATH: 250/1 261/38 218/700 103/705 280/464 240/5832 229/426           |
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