On 17 Jan 21  12:41:01, Rob Swindell said the following to Nick Andre:

 > When your beloved Linux needs to shut down, why does it not just immediately
 > signal the system to power off? Why does it get busy terminating services?
RS> 
RS> Programs can handle signals (e.g. SIGTERM) gracefully. This is pretty stand
RS> for *nix programs and BinkD is no exception. This is what the exitsig()
RS> function in binkd's breaksig.c already does.

Yes... I already know this. Thats not what was requested here a few times over
the years. Read my other message. Dialup/legacy/other mailers wait until the
current session is done before exiting when receiving an exit semaphore.

Nick

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