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- From: m.hendry@dial.pipex.com (Mathew Hendry)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Terminating programs
- Date: Sat, 24 Feb 96 04:17:39
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- Lars RenstrĂ·m (d92-lrm@sm.luth.se) wrote:
- : I wonder if anyone of you know of a program that makes
- : it possible to terminate programs that has been lost in
- : cyberspace... =) I find it quite irritating not to be
- : able to kill a program that has hung up. The command
- : 'status' doesn't show all the active processes and therefore
- : it is impossible to kill them in that way. So I would like
- : to kill programs just like it is possible to kill defunct
- : programs in the Unix environment!
-
- Programs like ARTM, Scout and Executive allow you to kill tasks.
-
- The results aren't as clean as those on e.g. UNIX systems, however, because
- AmigaOS has no resource tracking.
-
- All these programs do is remove the process from Exec's task list. Not a very
- safe way of doing things, but there's no way round it at the moment.
-
- So any memory or other resources the misbehaving program was using before it
- died won't be returned to the system. You are also quite likely to be paid a
- visit by the Guru soon afterwards.
-
- -- Mat.
-