Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Apr 2001 01:53:38 +0200 | From | Miquel van Smoorenburg <> | Subject | Re: Let init know user wants to shutdown |
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According to Kurt Roeckx: > On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 11:20:24PM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > The "-1" means > > "all processes except me". That means init will get hit with > > SIGTERM occasionally during shutdown, and that might cause > > weird things to happen. > > -1 mean everything but init. > > From the manpage:
Oh. OK, so this is yet another special case for init - forget to check those. Sorry about that (hey it's 01:53 here, I should be in bed). Yet I still think it'd be a better idea to use RT signals, see my other message in this thread.
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