Re: Let init know user wants to shutdown

Simon Richter
2001-04-16T16:26:09Z

On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Andreas Ferber wrote:

> > A power failure is a different thing from a power button press.

> And why not do exactly this with init? Have a look in /etc/inittab:

> You can shut down your machine there, but you can also have it play a
> cancan on power failure. It is up to your gusto. And now tell me, why
> not choose a similar approach, but instead reinvent the wheel and
> create a completely new mechanism?

Because we'd be running out of signals soon, when all the other ACPI
events get available.

Simon

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