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From: davidg@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (David Guntner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Task KILL for Amiga
Message-ID: <6823@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Date: 18 Jan 89 03:17:48 GMT
References: <14729@oberon.USC.EDU>
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas
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From article <14729@oberon.USC.EDU>, by papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa):
|In article <10908@s.ms.uky.edu| sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes:
||In article <3716@crash.cts.com| billk@pnet01.cts.com (Bill W. Kelly) writes:
|||You should be able to terminate the task with a RemTask(task).
|||You will not, however, be able to deallocate its resources.
||
||Hmmm. Why not? Doesn't AmigaDos keep track of owned resources?
|
|No, it doesn't.

If you have GOMF, there is a "Nuke" command that comes with it, which can be
used to remove any task from the system.  It will also return all PUBLIC
memory that the task used to the system.  Any privately assigned memory,
however, will still be lost.
                   --Dave

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