Thus it was written in the epistle of Donna Garverick,
> Joe Berliner wrote:
>
> > I'm very new to this posix stuff so please bear with me as I ask what's
> > probably a dumb question:
>
> tain't no dumb questions with this crowd :-)
>
> > Since we are running these posix background processes as jobs, could the
> > abortjob command be made a little smarter to terminate these jobs properly?
> > Can the os determine if the job to be aborted is running a process that
> > needs to be "gently laid to rest" versus "terminated with extreme prejudice"?
> >
> > It would be easier for all of us if we could manage all jobs using the same
> > set of commands. Also, as was mentioned in an earlier post, this is an
> > issue for those who manage their batch environment through third party job
> > management systems.
>
> this is an intriguing question -- especially noting the constraint in the last
> paragraph.  any comments?        - d

I don't have time to write it now, but a UDC built on the same lines as Jeff's
STREAM or Volume UDCs should be able to do what's needed.  The different
aborting techniques would be put into a configuration file and if the
job was not represented in that file, it would be aborted by the normal method.

HTH,
Ted
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