Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Dec 1998 00:57:53 -0500 (EST) | From | "Jason A. Pfeil" <> | Subject | Re: Minor request for enhancement: "beep on halt" |
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Not quite. Shutdown(8) is a user-space program and as such exits when the kernel shuts down all processes before unmounting the filesystems. Shutdown just calls a routine in the kernel to handle the shutdown before it is killed itself. Therefore, this ability needs to be in the kernel proper.
Cheers!
--Jason
On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Richard Gooch wrote:
> Stephen Harris writes: > > Well, Alan Cox reckons my original patch was in the right place, so > > here's a version against 2.1.131. This is a lot better, because the > > shutdown code has been seperated out between the architectures, so > > I'm not too worried that this is intel only code... after all, it > > now lives in arch/i386 :-) > > Perhaps I missed it, but why can't you hack shutdown(8) to beep after > you've unmounted and synced? shutdown(8) already knows when it is safe > to turn the power off. > > Regards, > > Richard.... > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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