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   On 17 Jan 21  16:54:11, Wilfred Van Velzen said the following to Marc Lewis:   
      
   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?   
      
   I asked for the same thing over the years. I'm wondering why the arrogance    
   insist that we kill things by Pid instead of telling the program to exit    
   gracefully. The program checks for modifcations to the config file; it could    
   easily just check for a dummy file and close up shop.   
      
   WV> And doesn't OS2 have a way to kill running software? In linux you can 'kill   
   WV> it by PID or program name, so you don't need a semaphore file for this kind   
   WV> mechanism...   
      
   When your beloved Linux needs to shut down, why does it not just immediately    
   signal the system to power off? Why does it get busy terminating services?   
      
   Nick   
      
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