Re: Re: Semaphore
  By: Dan Cross to Rob Swindell on Mon Jan 18 2021 03:48 pm

 > On 17 Jan 2021 at 01:37p, Rob Swindell pondered and said...
 >
 >  RS> There are many standard signals and BinkD is treating 3 of them the
 >  RS> same (SIGBREAK, SIGINT, and SIGTERM). It doesn't seem like it would be
 >  RS> hard to change the behavior of one or all of those (or add support for
 >  RS> another signal) to terminate in the fashion you're requesting. Without
 >  RS> the use
 >  RS> of a file.
 >
 > I nominate "SIGQUIT".

SIGQUIT normally triggers a core dump (the default "action" if no signal handler is installed). Probably not the best choice for the proposed use case.

 > The use of a file seems like an unnecessary DOS-ism.

Yup. That's what I was trying to say. :-)
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