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   Message 7,236 of 8,958   
   Rob Swindell to Dan Cross   
   Re: Semaphore   
   17 Jan 21 20:09:06   
   
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     Re: Re: Semaphore   
     By: Dan Cross to Rob Swindell on Mon Jan 18 2021 03:48 pm   
      
    > On 17 Jan 2021 at 01:37p, Rob Swindell pondered and said...   
    >   
    >  RS> There are many standard signals and BinkD is treating 3 of them the   
    >  RS> same (SIGBREAK, SIGINT, and SIGTERM). It doesn't seem like it would be   
    >  RS> hard to change the behavior of one or all of those (or add support for   
    >  RS> another signal) to terminate in the fashion you're requesting. Without   
    >  RS> the use   
    >  RS> of a file.   
    >   
    > I nominate "SIGQUIT".   
      
   SIGQUIT normally triggers a core dump (the default "action" if no signal   
   handler is installed). Probably not the best choice for the proposed use case.   
      
    > The use of a file seems like an unnecessary DOS-ism.   
      
   Yup. That's what I was trying to say. :-)   
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