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   17 Jan 21 12:50, Nick Andre wrote to Wilfred Van Velzen:   
      
    WV>>  ML> Is it possible to code in (in a future release) a mechanism to make   
    WV>>  ML> binkd exit (shut down) by seeing a semaphore in a given directory?   
    WV>>  ML> Internet Rex had this, when it saw "REXEXIT.NOW" in the semaphore   
    WV>>  ML> directory.   
    WV>>   
    WV>> I'm wondering why you would need that?   
      
    NA> I asked for the same thing over the years. I'm wondering why the arrogance   
    NA> insist that we kill things by Pid instead of telling the program to exit   
    NA> gracefully.   
      
   Maybe "to kill" is a bit wrong. Terminating a program with PID is "to ask to   
   stop".   
      
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     17 Jan 20:11:39 [40589] BEGIN, binkd/1.1a-111/OS2 -sC -vv binkd_360.cfg   
     17 Jan 20:11:39 [40589] created binkd_360.pid   
     17 Jan 20:11:39 [40589] servmgr started   
   - 17 Jan 20:11:39 [40589] servmgr listen on *:24555   
   ! 17 Jan 20:11:57 [40589] got signal #15.   
     17 Jan 20:11:57 [40589] Closing server socket # 3   
     17 Jan 20:11:57 [40589] bsy_remove_all: done   
     17 Jan 20:11:57 [40589] unlinked `binkd_360.pid'   
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