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|    Tony Langdon to Nick Andre    |
|    Re: Semaphore    |
|    20 Jan 21 11:30:00    |
      TZUTC: 1100       MSGID: 2189.fido-binkd@3:633/410 246ce496       REPLY: 1:229/426 86788190       PID: Synchronet 3.17c-Linux Nov 3 2019 GCC 4.6.3       TID: SBBSecho 3.10-Linux r3.146 Nov 3 2019 GCC 4.6.3       CHRS: ASCII 1       -=> On 01-17-21 12:50, Nick Andre wrote to Wilfred Van Velzen <=-               NA> I asked for the same thing over the years. I'm wondering why the        NA> arrogance insist that we kill things by Pid instead of telling the        NA> program to exit gracefully. The program checks for modifcations to the        NA> config file; it could easily just check for a dummy file and close up        NA> shop.              "kill" by default sends a SIGTERM to the process, which tells it to shut down       gracefully. At least on a *NIX OS.                     ... Don't itch for what you don't intend to scratch.       === MultiMail/Win v0.52       --- SBBSecho 3.10-Linux        * Origin: Freeway BBS Bendigo,Australia freeway.apana.org.au (3:633/410)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 90/1 105/81 120/340 123/131 129/305 226/30 227/114       SEEN-BY: 229/101 200 424 426 550 664 1016 1017 240/5832 249/109 206       SEEN-BY: 249/307 317 292/854 322/757 342/200 633/0 267 280 281 384       SEEN-BY: 633/410 412 416 509 640/1384 712/848       PATH: 633/410 280 229/426           |
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