On Saturday 12 September 2015 15:28:24 Bertram Moshier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> OK, maybe I'm jumping the gun as I have yet to come up with a simple test,
> but . . . This issue may affect everyone who starts multiple processes
> using ooRexx.
>
> What I noticed is when I have an ooRexx program start other
> processes/session using the start command, I'm unable to kill them using
> Control-C. Thus when you start other processes to use a multiple cores or
> more than one physical processor, you can't terminate them with control-C
> should something go wrong (or if by desire that is how you want to
> terminate the process).
>
> Am I just old fashion or is there a better way to write multiple threaded /
> multiple processor ooRexx programs than to "spin"/"fork"/"start" other
> Command Prompt sessions and then communicate via pipes, queues, etc?
>
> Thanks in advance for helping this old folk with his programming,
>
> Bert.
You might try the HI (Halt Immediate) command (documented in the Rexx
Extensions manual. It might work in Windows.
Leslie
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