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From: thierry@watson.ibm.com (Thierry Samama)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
Subject: Re: questions on os/2
Message-ID: <1991Apr1.153428.13292@watson.ibm.com>
Date: 1 Apr 91 15:28:52 GMT
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In <1991Mar29.141629.9239@hubcap.clemson.edu>, ibmman@eng.clemson.edu ((the) IBMMAN) writes:
>
>We have a utility called KILL.EXE which simply calls DosKillProcess.  It
>has never failed for me.
>

DosKillProcess only "flags the process to terminate", according to the
OS/2 1.2 CP Reference. So if the process has set a signal handler for
SIGTERM (using DosSetSigHandler) and the signal handler refuses to yield,
the process will not terminate. To the best of my knowledge, there is no way
to work around this.

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