markr@garfield.UUCP (08/11/87)
The first thing you make in a multi-tasking DOS like AmigaDOS is RUN. (A very nice command!) The next one is KILL. (Excuse me? No kill command?) I want to be able to say kill task 2 and have what ever task 2 is or was to end and go away! If you can make or have such a command that I can add to my C dir please post it to this group. Thanks Joseph Robert Dawson NOT: Mark Dawson
daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) (08/14/87)
in article <3873@garfield.UUCP>, markr@garfield.UUCP (Mark Dawson) says: > > The first thing you make in a multi-tasking DOS like AmigaDOS is > RUN. (A very nice command!) The next one is KILL. (Excuse me? No kill > command?) > > I want to be able to say kill task 2 and have what ever task 2 is > or was to end and go away! If you can make or have such a command that > I can add to my C dir please post it to this group. Without complete resource tracking, a task can't just be indiscriminantly killed. However, since all tasks are likely to know how to shut themselves down, there's already a command that works very much like the KILL command you propose. It's the Break command. You'd type something like: 1> Break task 3 e What this will do is set the ^E signal in task 3 (you could also specify the ^C, ^D, or ^F signals). A properly written program will see this via either a polling or an exception, and shut itself down. Try this with the Dir command, which responds to ^C. Start up a background Dir (in it's own window to make things easier on yourself), like: 1> run Dir >con:10/10/200/100/DirWindow opt a [CLI 2] And you see Dir chugging away in it's window. If you then type: 1> break task 2 c you'll shut down the Dir window as Dir responds to the ^C signal. And that's really all there is to it. Not as powerful as a UN*X "kill -9", since the task being killed must cooperate, but useful nonetheless. > Joseph Robert Dawson > NOT: Mark Dawson -- Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga Usenet: {ihnp4|caip|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh "The A2000 Guy" PLINK : D-DAVE H BIX : hazy "I'd rather die while I'm living, than live while I'm dead" -Jimmy Buffett
peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) (08/20/87)
Apart from some (not all) of the tools that come with the machine, I haven't seen a single properly written program. Not :->. -- -- Peter da Silva `-_-' ...!seismo!soma!uhnix1!sugar!peter (I said, NO PHOTOS!)