On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, Micha Nelissen wrote:
> Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > It's modelled on Windows. There terminate doesn't ask questions. > > Hence the implementation. > > Then it's badly modelled. > > There is no way on windows to "cleanly" ask a process to terminate ? Send it a > WM_QUIT message or so ? The Terminate call in windows is the equivalent of sending a KILL. So the unix call is even rather 'soft'. What concerns a WM_QUIT: you need a window handle for this, and you don't have that in e.g. a command-line program or service. If you want a more 'friendly' way, I think we should add a call 'TryTerminate(Timeout : Integer)' or something, which tries to send a WM_QUIT on windows and which sends a TERM on Linux; after TimeOut milliseconds it should probe to see whether the process actually stopped. Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
