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echo: binkd
to: Wilfred van Velzen
from: Vincent Coen
date: 2021-01-17 16:54:00
subject: Semaphore

Hello Wilfred!

Sunday January 17 2021 16:54, you wrote to Marc Lewis:

 > Hi Marc,

 > On 2021-01-17 09:20:03, you wrote to All:

 ML>> Is it possible to code in (in a future release) a mechanism to
 ML>> make binkd exit (shut down) by seeing a semaphore in a given
 ML>> directory? Internet Rex had this, when it saw "REXEXIT.NOW" in
 ML>> the semaphore directory.

 > I'm wondering why you would need that?

 > And doesn't OS2 have a way to kill running software? In linux you can
 > 'kill' it by PID or program name, so you don't need a semaphore file
 > for this kind of mechanism...

There is a difference for terminate and kill even more so for multi
user platforms.


Vincent

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