XPost: alt.windows7.general   
   From: this@ddress.is.invalid   
      
   R.Wieser  wrote:   
   [...]   
      
   > >> >  Perhaps without /f, WordPad will do the desired thing and   
   > >> > re-read the file.   
   > >>   
   > >> Whooo!  Yes, thats quite the long shot. :-)   
   > >   
   > > Well, it's not such a long shot, for the reasons I gave (and   
   > > you snipped).   
   >   
   > Does Windows support any of those, as I think I recognise, Linux signals ?   
      
     I don't know. I don't do any Windows programming (only programmed on   
   UNIX, a little MS-DOS and before that on proprietary HP systems) and   
   haven't looked into what kind of 'signals' Windows has.   
      
     Newer Windows system can have WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux), but I   
   don't know if that offers any IPC (Inter Program Communication) between   
   the Windows and Linux environments.   
      
     I have Cygwin - a Linux-like environment - on my Windows system, but   
   that only knows about other Cygwin processes, not about Windows ones.   
      
   > > If other operating systems can do it, there's   
   > > no reason Windows can't do it.   
   >   
   > True.   
   >   
   > But as I read taskkills help and saw nothing indicating it would support   
   > such signals to be send, the reloading effect of whats /supposed/ to be a   
   > "close yourself please" request would be a rather wierd side-effect on   
   > wordpads behalf.  Hence my "Whooo!" response.   
   >   
   > But in that case, how would you tell taskkill to send a non-forced "close   
   > yourself please" to wordpad ?   If available it would than be different than   
   > whats used for every other program, and that makes little logical sense ...   
      
     Yes, taskkill would need to have more than two 'signals', but from   
   'taskkill /?' it looks it has only these two, not the granularity which   
   unix/Linux offer.   
      
   > >> But alas, when I tried that I didn't see that happen.   
   > >   
   > >  To be expected, but worth the try (you already did).   
   >   
   > Trying stuff out, even just to see what happens (and learn from it!) is   
   > never a bad idea - as long as its not on an important   
   > 'puter/program/database/etc. ofcourse. :-)   
      
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