Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!udel!mmdf From: okay@tafs.mitre.org (Okay S J) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: RE:Suggestions for a kill command Message-ID: <1661@nigel.udel.EDU> Date: 14 Oct 89 13:54:01 GMT Sender: mmdf@udel.EDU Lines: 24 >From: "W. David Rohwer" >Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga >Subject: Suggestion for kill command. >I have a suggestion for the next version of the OS. Can you include >a command to kill a process like the UNIX kill command? It would make it >easier for me to free up resources if a program goes out to lunch. Also, it >would prevent me from doing a warm reboot of my machine. >-- Agreed...it would be of immense benefit if you could simply do something like a 'kill 9' on a hung process. I'm actually kind of surprised it doesn't exist right now. Severity levels would be nice, but they don't have to be as extensive those provided by UNIX or other OS's. Something along the lines of a terminate-when-possible and the more drastic die-now! would probably be enough. Out of curiosity, how difficult would this be to do?--You'd just have to get the PID of the offending process and then force a hangup or vacate (no flames please, I don't the amiga lib calls memorized) right? (assuming worst case where you there's no way out but to just kill it and forget finishing I/O). ---Steve ----------------- OKAY@TAFS.MITRE.ORG Disclaimer:'My employer doesn't pay me enough to express their opinions'