Subj : Re: Semaphore
To   : Wilfred Van Velzen
From : Nick Andre
Date : Sun Jan 17 2021 12:50 pm

On 17 Jan 21  16:54:11, Wilfred Van Velzen said the following to Marc Lewis:

WV>  ML> Is it possible to code in (in a future release) a mechanism to make
WV>  ML> binkd exit (shut down) by seeing a semaphore in a given directory?
WV>  ML> Internet Rex had this, when it saw "REXEXIT.NOW" in the semaphore
WV>  ML> directory.
WV> 
WV> I'm wondering why you would need that?

I asked for the same thing over the years. I'm wondering why the arrogance 
insist that we kill things by Pid instead of telling the program to exit 
gracefully. The program checks for modifcations to the config file; it could 
easily just check for a dummy file and close up shop.

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

When your beloved Linux needs to shut down, why does it not just immediately 
signal the system to power off? Why does it get busy terminating services?

Nick

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