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SubjectRe: Standardize shutdown of the system from enviroment control modules
Hi!

> Currently snsc_event for Altix systems sends SIGPWR to init (and abuses
> tasklist_lock..) while the sbus drivers call execve for /sbin/shutdown
> (which is also ugly, it should at least use call_usermodehelper)
> With normal sysvinit both will end up the same, but I suspect the
> shutdown variant, maybe with a sysctl to chose the exact path to call
> would be cleaner. What do you guys think about adding a common function
> to do this. Could you test such a patch for me?

ACPI does some exec (in thermal), too. Yes, I think it is worth
standartizing. Easy to test, btw, just echo too low trippoints.

Pavel
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