Subj : Re: Semaphore
To   : Nick Andre
From : Tony Langdon
Date : Wed Jan 20 2021 11:30 am

-=> On 01-17-21 12:50, Nick Andre wrote to Wilfred Van Velzen <=-

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

"kill" by default sends a SIGTERM to the process, which tells it to shut down
gracefully.  At least on a *NIX OS.


.... Don't itch for what you don't intend to scratch.
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