Re: terminate applications

[Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com>]

O.K. I'm probably smart enough to generate my own package to do it. I 
could probably generate my own binding to the C routines necessary to 
make it happen. My concern is that it ought to be done in a way that is 
*standard* across compilers and platforms - to the extent that is 
possible. Having it in some conventional library that is supplied by 
most vendors would solve that problem.

MDC

tmoran@acm.org wrote:
>>To solve MDC's problem, and all that is needed is a sufficiently rounded
>>GPLed Halt package, that applies to popular platforms.
> 
>   May I offer:
> procedure Suicide;
> -- Implementation defined action.  Generally, calls the OS requesting
> -- immediate termination of the partition, usually without any cleanup
> -- or finalization.  On many OSes, this may need to be followed by
> -- a manual reboot.  Using a vendor supplied Halt, or aborting the
> -- environment task, will usually acomplish more graceful termination.
> The body of Suicide needs to be written specificaly for each OS.


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