On Fri, 9 Nov 2001 22:18, Jose Alberto Fernandez wrote:
> > > This task is really command dependent. You need to know that "apache
> > > -stop" shuts down your server, for example. So to me this is just a
> > > regular <exec> or what have you, up to the user.
> >
> > not necessarily. On *nix I can go
> >
> > kill 1234
> > killall foo
> >
> > where my process is #1234 or named foo. This will send a quit or interupt
> > signal which will usually kill of a process gracefully (unless they
> > choose to ignore it or fail to shutodwn gracefully).
>
> I think this is way too OS dependant feature. Can you even obtain the
> processid using the JDK1.1 APIs? I am not sure of that. I do not even think
> all OSs have the same representation of ProcIDs as to be able to write
> something usefull to all.

win32 and unix have similar enough setups. (But the win9x are not actually 
able to do kill -9 reliably due to OS limitations). That said there is no 
Java API for this .. though there may be something similar - just not till 
jdk1.5 ;(

-- 
Cheers,

Pete

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