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From: Vincent Hanquez <vincent.hanquez@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: execve() in reboot.c ?
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 20:20:23 +0200
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On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 02:13:25PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Mark Williamson wrote:
> 
> > It'd be nice if Linux had a generic way of communicating a reboot 
> > request to userspace.  It ought to be useful on other VMMs - maybe this 
> > is something for Rik's common infrastructure wishlist?
> 
> How about simply reusing whatever signal is sent to init
> when ctrl-alt-del is pressed on PCs ?

SIGINT

That's not a good idea though, if somebody put nothing in the ctrlaltdel
action, then it's not going to do anything.

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Vincent Hanquez