Subj : Re: Semaphore
To   : Marc Lewis
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Sun Jan 17 2021 04:54 pm

Hi Marc,

On 2021-01-17 09:20:03, you wrote to All:

 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?
 ML> Internet Rex had this, when it saw "REXEXIT.NOW" in the semaphore
 ML> directory.

I'm wondering why you would need that?

And doesn't OS2 have a way to kill running software? In linux you can 'kill' it by PID or program name, so you don't need a semaphore file for this kind of mechanism...

Bye, Wilfred.

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