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|    Tommi Koivula to Marc Lewis    |
|    Semaphore    |
|    18 Jan 21 12:13:18    |
      REPLY: 1:396/45.0 0049f761       MSGID: 2:221/1.1 60055fd6       CHRS: UTF-8 4       TZUTC: 0200       TID: hpt/w32-mvc 1.9.0-cur 2020-11-09       Hi Marc.              17 Jan 21 14:35:46, you wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:               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.               WvV>> I'm wondering why you would need that?               WvV>> And doesn't OS2 have a way to kill running software? In linux you        WvV>> can 'kill' it by PID or program name, so you don't need a        WvV>> semaphore file for this kind of mechanism...               ML> I'll do some command digging and see; there probably IS a type of 'kill'       command built into OS/2 that        ML> I've never utilised.              There is an old but nice Go!              === Cut ===       GO! v1.5 - (c) 1993-95 by Carsten Wimmer |
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