Subj : Re: Semaphore
To   : Tommi Koivula
From : Nick Andre
Date : Sun Jan 17 2021 01:29 pm

On 17 Jan 21  20:07:26, Tommi Koivula said the following to Nick Andre:

TK>  NA> I asked for the same thing over the years. I'm wondering why the arrog
TK>  NA> insist that we kill things by Pid instead of telling the program to ex
TK>  NA> gracefully.
TK> 
TK> Maybe "to kill" is a bit wrong. Terminating a program with PID is "to ask t
TK> stop".

I know what it means and those of us who asked for a shutdown-semaphore
want slightly different behavior than terminating with Pid.

On typical Fido mailers, you create an exit semaphore so the mailer sees that
and exits with an errorlevel set once the current mail session has ended. On 
BinkD (on Windows) telling it to close terminates active connections.

This has been requested here a few times.

Nick

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