Subj : Semaphore
To : Nick Andre
From : Tommi Koivula
Date : Sun Jan 17 2021 08:07 pm
17 Jan 21 12:50, Nick Andre wrote to Wilfred Van Velzen:
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?
NA> I asked for the same thing over the years. I'm wondering why the arrogance
NA> insist that we kill things by Pid instead of telling the program to exit
NA> gracefully.
Maybe "to kill" is a bit wrong. Terminating a program with PID is "to ask to stop".
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17 Jan 20:11:39 [40589] BEGIN, binkd/1.1a-111/OS2 -sC -vv binkd_360.cfg
17 Jan 20:11:39 [40589] created binkd_360.pid
17 Jan 20:11:39 [40589] servmgr started
- 17 Jan 20:11:39 [40589] servmgr listen on *:24555
! 17 Jan 20:11:57 [40589] got signal #15.
17 Jan 20:11:57 [40589] Closing server socket # 3
17 Jan 20:11:57 [40589] bsy_remove_all: done
17 Jan 20:11:57 [40589] unlinked `binkd_360.pid'
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