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echo: os2prog
to: Peter Fitzsimmons
from: Andrew Clegg
date: 1995-03-28 00:48:10
subject: Silly questions?

Hi, Peter.

-=> Peter Fitzsimmons spaketh unto Andrew Clegg <=-

 AC>> can't. I think the only one which has done it more 
 AC>> than once is SLIP.EXE. I have many process killers, 
 AC>> all of which presumably use DosKillProcess(), and they 
 AC>> all just do nothing except Mole which reports "Invalid

 PF> If a process is catching the kill signal,  there's nothing you can do
 PF> to kill it.

So there's no OS/2 equivalent of the 'rude' Unix SIGTERM, it's all 'polite'
like SIGKILL? A process can't be killed if it doesn't want to be? :-(

Andrew.

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