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Article #11008Re: Task KILL for Amiga
From: David Guntner
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1989 03:17
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1989 03:17
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From article <14729@oberon.USC.EDU>, by papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa):
|In article <10908@s.ms.uky.edu| sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes:
||In article <3716@crash.cts.com| billk@pnet01.cts.com (Bill W. Kelly) writes:
|||You should be able to terminate the task with a RemTask(task).
|||You will not, however, be able to deallocate its resources.
||
||Hmmm. Why not? Doesn't AmigaDos keep track of owned resources?
|
|No, it doesn't.
If you have GOMF, there is a "Nuke" command that comes with it, which can be
used to remove any task from the system. It will also return all PUBLIC
memory that the task used to the system. Any privately assigned memory,
however, will still be lost.
--Dave
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!killer!davidg From: davidg@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (David Guntner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Task KILL for Amiga Message-ID: <6823@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> Date: 18 Jan 89 03:17:48 GMT References: <14729@oberon.USC.EDU> Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas Lines: 21