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echo: binkd
to: Nick Andre
from: Rob Swindell
date: 2021-01-18 12:31:00
subject: Re: Semaphore

  Re: Re: Semaphore
  By: Rob Swindell to Nick Andre on Mon Jan 18 2021 12:06 pm

 >  > Its been running here for many years trouble-free... its not the end of
 >  > the world if it can't do one little thing. Any further discussion or
 >  > quote-rants or whatever silly symantecs and we have to cough up royalties
 >  > to Mark Lewis.
 >
 > It wouldn't be a big change to binkd and it's open source. Try addig it
 > (starting with breaksig.c), if you need help, just ask.

Looking at the source code, it appears that BinkD already behaves exactly as you are requesting it to behave: When it receives SIGBREAK, SIGINT, or SIGTERM, it sets the 'binkd_exit' global flag and then terminates when idle if that flag is set.
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