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On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 17:01 -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > On Sun, 1 May 2005, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > > > Hub driver is using SIGKILL to terminate khubd. Unfortunately on a number of > > distributions switching init levels implicitly does "killall -9", killing > > khubd. The only way to restart it is to reload USB subsystem. > > > > Is signal usage in this case really needed? What about replacing it with > > simple flag (i.e. will patch be accepted)? > > IMO the problem lies in those distributions. They should not > indiscrimately kill processes when switching init levels. It's probably not indiscriminate, all the init scripts I have seen only resort to kill -9 if the process fails to terminate in an orderly fashion via the /etc/rcX.d/Kfoo script. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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