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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Task KILL for Amiga
Keywords: kill task CLI
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Date: 16 Jan 89 23:52:21 GMT
References: <89Jan14.134000est.2661@godzilla.eecg.toronto.edu>
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Reply-To: cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis)
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In (Marcel LeBlanc) writes:
> I'm looking for a program like the UNIX kill that will allow me to terminate
> a CLI spawned task.

Can't do it. Lots of reasons why, the solution for Lattice 3.1 is to make
sure that you code either calls "CheckAbort()" or sets up an interrupt
for break signals. 

> I'm writing some simple C code with the Lattice compiler v3.10 (stop 
> laughing, I'll get around to updating someday!).  What am I supposed `
> to do when the program is in an infinite loop? 

I'm not laughing, but you should know that the 5.0 release of Lattice 
includes a debugger that a) you can run your program under and have
it break out when it is hung, or b) start the debugger after you
code gets hung and "attach" to it, change the code that is causing it
to hang and then let it finish. Your best bet is to upgrade.


--Chuck McManis
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