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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: "kill"
Message-ID: <581@sugar.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 28-Aug-87 11:19:09 EDT
Article-I.D.: sugar.581
Posted: Fri Aug 28 11:19:09 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 30-Aug-87 08:58:17 EDT
References: <1708@amiga.amiga.UUCP>
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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Keywords: memory fragmentation
Summary: A humble suggestion.

Isn't there a "end task" entry in the task structure? Is that entry
called in a way compatible with 'C'? If not, how much glue would you
need? Can't you implement a "kill" program that calls this routine?

The other thing you need to do then is add a "set kill action" routine
to the 'C' library that sticks the address of a specified routine into
that slot (this routine, of course, has to end with a terminate task
call...)?

That's much better than having to watch for SIGB_CTRLC all through your
code. Existing tasks (which presumably just "kill myself") would leave
junk all over the place... but at least they'd be gone.

This would also take care of nerds who forget to make sure they call
their cleanup routines before exiting.
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