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From: Vincent Hanquez <vincent.hanquez@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: aq <aquynh@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>,
	xen-devel@lists.xensource.com,
	Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@cl.cam.ac.uk>,
	Ian Pratt <m+Ian.Pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: execve() in reboot.c ?
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 20:31:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050725183140.GA29762@snarc.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9cde8bff0507251126303ec116@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 03:26:34AM +0900, aq wrote:
> i dont see why we try to call userspace comand first, then fail thru
> to sys_reboot(). why just call sys_reboot()?

because sys_reboot doesn't do:

- a clean shutdown of all processes of the machines.
- unmount partitions.
- sync data to disk.
- problably some more reasons.

-- 
Vincent Hanquez

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-07-25 18:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-25 11:00 execve() in reboot.c ? Ian Pratt
2005-07-25 17:41 ` aq
2005-07-25 17:47   ` Mark Williamson
2005-07-25 17:56     ` Jeremy Katz
2005-07-25 18:03       ` Mark Williamson
2005-07-25 18:13         ` Rik van Riel
2005-07-25 18:20           ` Vincent Hanquez
2005-07-25 18:30             ` Anthony Liguori
2005-07-25 19:18             ` Rik van Riel
2005-07-25 18:26           ` Mark Williamson
2005-07-25 18:26         ` aq
2005-07-25 18:29           ` Mark Williamson
2005-07-25 18:31           ` Vincent Hanquez [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-07-25 19:48 Ian Pratt
2005-07-25 20:18 ` Sean Dague
2005-07-25 20:31 ` Philip R Auld
2005-07-26 12:55   ` Gerd Knorr
2005-07-25 20:48 ` Mark Williamson
2005-07-25 20:46   ` Keir Fraser
2005-07-25 20:52   ` Rik van Riel
2005-07-25  8:53 aq

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