Re: [RFC] Change signal used to exit scsi error handlers

[Willem Riede <wrlk@riede.org>]

On 2003.01.01 16:05 Willem Riede wrote:
> I earlier reported, that the error handler for ide-scsi exits prematurely if modprobed
> from rc.sysinit. I put in some debug prints to apprehend the culprit responsible for
> sending the SIGHUP signal that causes the exit.
> 
[snip]
> 
> Since we want error handlers to survive, IMHO that means that the choice of signal
> for error handler exit is unfortunate. The source of scsi_error suggests SIGPWR
> might be a worthy alternative. I think that is true. From inspecting init source,
> it is not capable of sending SIGPWR. SIGPWR should never be sent by dying processes
> (its sole use should be from a power daemon _to_ init to shut the system down when
> the juice is running out).
> 
So nobody has any comments? But who decides whether to make this change?
>From the source it appears that the last person to touch scsi_error.c and hosts.c
is Mike Anderson. Does that make you the defacto maintainer, Mike?

Thanks, Willem Riede.