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From: page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: background processes
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Date: 18 Mar 88 19:04:32 GMT
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There's no CLI command to do list ALL processes, although there are PD
programs (like AmigaMonitor) that do it.  Actually I think you mean
processes+tasks, as tasks are sort of lightweight processes (or is a
process a heavy task? :-))

You can't outright kill a process.  The system doesn't keep track of
memory allocations, etc, for a particular process, so can't clean up
after it's gone.  You can send signals ( ^C, ^D, ^E, ^F) to the
process and hope that it catches it and cleans itself up, but very few
programs let you do this.

..Bob
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