Re: Let init know user wants to shutdown

Miquel van Smoorenburg
2001-04-10T23:54:00Z

According to Kurt Roeckx:
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 11:20:24PM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> > The "-1" means
> > "all processes except me". That means init will get hit with
> > SIGTERM occasionally during shutdown, and that might cause
> > weird things to happen.
>
> -1 mean everything but init.
>
> From the manpage:

Oh. OK, so this is yet another special case for init - forget to
check those. Sorry about that (hey it's 01:53 here, I should be
in bed). Yet I still think it'd be a better idea to use RT signals,
see my other message in this thread.

Mike.