Subj : RE: Semaphore
To   : Wilfred van Velzen
From : Marc Lewis
Date : Sun Jan 17 2021 02:35 pm

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