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From: cpc@czaeap.UUCP (Chris Cebelenski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
Subject: Re: Is there a KillTask command?
Message-ID: <18def8fb.ARN0f10@czaeap.UUCP>
Date: 23 Mar 91 16:11:55 GMT
References: <12951@ucrmath.ucr.edu>
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In article <12951@ucrmath.ucr.edu>, wayne wallace writes:

> Hullo. Basically, I would like to have something similar to the
> UNIX 'kill' command. Status works enough like ps that I don't care,
> but having ps would be nice. Abacus' books says that status only shows
> CLI tasks, and not stuff you execute from workbench via icons, though...
> Hmm. Yup. Anyone have/know where is ps&kill ?
> 


Nowhere, and for a good reason.  The Amiga's operating system, in an attempt
to keep throughput close to real-time and yet still provide the functionality
it does, doesn't keep track of resources that a particular process uses.  If
one were to kill a particular task with extream predjudice it would die, but it
would also leave any memory it allocated, files it had open or locked etc.  AmigaDOS
does come with the BREAK command, which is good for terminating processes that trap
the control-C,D, etc keys, but not so good otherwise.  Your only other solution
would be to MANUALY go into a program like XOper or ARTM and kill the process, then
free up anything it left open/allocated.
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