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   REPLY: 7779.binkd@1:103/705 2469f540   
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   On 17 Jan 21  12:41:01, Rob Swindell said the following to Nick Andre:   
      
    > 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?   
   RS>    
   RS> Programs can handle signals (e.g. SIGTERM) gracefully. This is pretty stand   
   RS> for *nix programs and BinkD is no exception. This is what the exitsig()   
   RS> function in binkd's breaksig.c already does.   
      
   Yes... I already know this. Thats not what was requested here a few times over   
   the years. Read my other message. Dialup/legacy/other mailers wait until the   
   current session is done before exiting when receiving an exit semaphore.   
      
   Nick   
      
   --- Renegade vY2Ka2   
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