Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Apr 2001 10:39:00 +0200 | From | Andreas Ferber <> | Subject | Re: Let init know user wants to shutdown |
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On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 08:16:00AM +0200, Simon Richter wrote: > > > Extending SIGPWR will break inits not yet supporting the extensions, > > so this is IMO not an option. There should be used some other signal > > which is simply ignored by an old init. > Make it a config option then; the short description says "read help", the > long help says "you need init version x.y". People compiling their own > kernels should know what they're doing, and distributors usually know what > init they are packaging.
The problem with this is that there is no single init. Most distribution run the same SysV init, but there are quite a few init replacements around. Should we really break all of them? We can simply use another signal and build a generic (and extensible) signalling mechanism around it, so I don't really see a reason why we should break old inits.
Andreas -- Insults are effective only where emotion is present. -- Spock, "Who Mourns for Adonais?" stardate 3468.1
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