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From: fgd3@jc3b21.UUCP (Fabbian G. Dufoe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: RE:Suggestions for a kill command
Message-ID: <774@jc3b21.UUCP>
Date: 16 Oct 89 01:35:36 GMT
References: <1661@nigel.udel.EDU>
Organization: St. Petersburg Jr. College, FL
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     Everybody agrees it would be great to have a kill command.  However,
it's not possible with the Amiga.  Sure, you could have a command that
aborts a process.  But you want a kill command to (1) terminate a runaway
process and (2) free its resources.  Since AmigaDOS doesn't track resources
there's no way to free resources except for the process to do it.

     This hasn't been a major subject of discussion for almost two years.

--Fabbian Dufoe
  350 Ling-A-Mor Terrace South
  St. Petersburg, Florida  33705
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