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|    Tommi Koivula to Wilfred van Velzen    |
|    Semaphore    |
|    17 Jan 21 20:05:38    |
      REPLY: 2:280/464 60045e10       MSGID: 2:221/1 60047cce       CHRS: CP850 2       TZUTC: 0200       TID: hpt/os2-emx 1.9.0-cur 2020-11-09       17 Jan 21 16:54, Wilfred van Velzen wrote to Marc Lewis:               WV> 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 make        ML>> binkd exit (shut down) by seeing a semaphore in a given directory?        ML>> Internet Rex had this, when it saw "REXEXIT.NOW" in the semaphore        ML>> directory.               WV> I'm wondering why you would need that?              To stop mail transfer? :)               WV> And doesn't OS2 have a way to kill running software?              Yes, it has.              'Tommi              ---        * Origin: rbb.fidonet.fi (2:221/1)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 90/1 103/705 105/81 120/340 123/131 124/5016 129/305       SEEN-BY: 154/10 203/0 221/1 6 242 360 226/30 227/114 229/101 200 424       SEEN-BY: 229/426 550 664 1016 1017 230/0 240/2100 5138 5411 5832 5853       SEEN-BY: 240/6309 249/109 206 307 317 280/464 5003 5555 288/100 292/854       SEEN-BY: 292/8125 310/31 320/219 322/757 342/200 396/45 423/81 120       SEEN-BY: 460/58 712/848 770/1 2432/390 2452/250 2454/119       PATH: 221/1 280/464 240/5832 229/426           |
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