Re: Re: Semaphore
  By: Nick Andre to Rob Swindell on Sun Jan 17 2021 06:27 pm

 > On 17 Jan 21  13:37:37, Rob Swindell said the following to Nick Andre:
 >
 > RS> Okay, so you're wanting a change in the behavior of the termination signal handling. That seems different than expecting the
 > RS> use of a file to signal t termination.
 >
 > Nope.
 >
 > What was asked was an additional check for a simple dummy file when BinkD  ***is idle*** and terminates if that file exists.
 >
 > I prefer to have all connections finish before BinkD shuts down.... letting  the door close gently via a dummy file rather than
 > slamming it shut with Pid.

Yeah, you're not understanding what I'm saying. BinkD could pretty easily set a flag when it receives a signal (whatever signal, it doesn't have to be SIGTERM) and then terminate ***when idle**. It sounds like you're opposed to the use of a signal for some reasson.

 > Just like every Fidonet mailer does so.

BinkIT is a FidoNet mailer and does not behave as you describe.
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