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echo: binkd
to: Wilfred van Velzen
from: Marc Lewis
date: 2021-01-17 14:35:00
subject: RE: Semaphore

Hello Wilfred.



 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...

I'll do some command digging and see; there probably IS a type of 'kill' command built into OS/2 that I've never utilised.

Best regards,
Marc

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