Hello Wilfred.
<On 17Jan2021 16:54 Wilfred van Velzen (2:280/464) wrote a message to Marc
Lewis regarding Re: Semaphore >
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? Internet
ML> Rex had this, when it saw "REXEXIT.NOW" in the semaphore 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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