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    SubjectRe: [linux-usb-devel] init 1 kill khubd on 2.6.11
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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.

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