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     Re: Re: Semaphore   
     By: Nick Andre to Wilfred Van Velzen on Sun Jan 17 2021 12:50 pm   
      
    > WV> And doesn't OS2 have a way to kill running software? In linux you can   
    > WV> 'kill it by PID or program name, so you don't need a semaphore file for   
    > WV> this kind 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?   
      
   Programs can handle signals (e.g. SIGTERM) gracefully. This is pretty standard   
   for *nix programs and BinkD is no exception. This is what the exitsig()   
   function in binkd's breaksig.c already does.   
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