Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Apr 2001 16:41:09 -0700 | From | Mike Castle <> | Subject | Re: Let init know user wants to shutdown |
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On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 11:20:24PM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <20010405000215.A599@bug.ucw.cz>, > Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> wrote: > >Init should get to know that user pressed power button (so it can do > >shutdown and poweroff). Plus, it is nice to let user know that we can > > Not so hasty ;) > > >+ printk ("acpi: Power button pressed!\n"); > >+ kill_proc (1, SIGTERM, 1);
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Is using a signal the appropriate thing to do anyway?
Wouldn't there be better solutions?
Perhaps a mechanism a user space program can use to communicate to the kernel (ala arpd/kerneld message queues, or something like klogd). Then a more general user space tool could be used that would do policy appropriate stuff, ending with init 0.
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