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From: mhg@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA (Mark H. Granoff)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Forcing image exit and process deletion
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Date: 15 Mar 88 13:54:05 GMT
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>Dec has already thought of this one for you.  Look at the sys$forcex call.
>It basically forces an error in another process and causes the exit handlers
>to run, then the image exits.  It's actually kind of nice, since I believe that
>you could write a condition handler and use it like unix signals.
>
>bruce  <xrbeo@vpfvm> on bitnet

Just for the record, the $FORCEX system service issues a $EXIT system
service on behalf of another process in the form of an AST.  The $EXIT
system service then executes any exit handlers for that process before
issuing a $DELPRC system service (also in the form of an AST).  ASTs
pending before the $EXIT AST is issued (by $FORCEX) are completed
first.

Just my two cents...

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