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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: stupid question: how can I finish a program?
Date: 28 Aug 2002 16:15:23 -0600
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In article <akin0p$fma$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, "Marin D. Condic" <not.valid@acm.org> writes:

> There can't be *that* many different ways of killing the process that a
> reasonable compromise answer couldn't be found. What more would be needed
> than a "Kill_The_Process (Optional_Integer_Return_Code_For_Unix_Freaks) ;"
> call? Would it need to be dramatically different between Unix/Windows/Mac?
> Would anyone care if it couldn't be implemented easily on some obscure OS?

As I recall, you had some VMS background, so VMS is not "obscure" :-)

	1. With what error code should one exit (odd numbers mean success) ?
	2. Do you want to run exit handlers in the executable image
	   and the various shareable images it invoked ?
	3. Do you want to run exit handling in the batch file that
	   is controlling the program ?

But you cannot avoid running the exit handlers associated with a
privileged shareable image.  It is possible to construct a pathelogical
case that will not kill the process since that would damage system
integrity.