NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/comp/sys/acorn/10450

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From: [e-mail] (Tom Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: kill apps from cli?
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Date: 22 Jan 93 09:59:03 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (David Brain) writes:
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>
>Would it be possible to write somthing that could kill apps running on the
>desktop from the cli...on a similar idea would it be possible to get a list
>of running apps from the cli...like the unix ps command.
>
>Do such things exist?  would it be possible to write them ?

It's certainly possible to list the running tasks - you just call
TaskManager_EnumerateTasks repeatedly, outputing the information. The
other question is trickier, as you would have to send a Message_Quit
to the task concerned, which can't be done unless you're a desktop
task. I guess you'd have to have a module which was running as a
desktop task and which queued kill requests from outside the desktop
and carried them out as soon as you went back to the desktop.

Tom.

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