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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. Alan Stern - 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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