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* Standardize shutdown of the system from enviroment control modules
@ 2005-08-09 21:10 Christoph Hellwig
  2005-08-09 21:25 ` Greg Howard
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  0 siblings, 3 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Christoph Hellwig @ 2005-08-09 21:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Greg Howard, davem; +Cc: linux-kernel

Currently snsc_event for Altix systems sends SIGPWR to init (and abuses
tasklist_lock..) while the sbus drivers call execve for /sbin/shutdown
(which is also ugly, it should at least use call_usermodehelper)
With normal sysvinit both will end up the same, but I suspect the
shutdown variant, maybe with a sysctl to chose the exact path to call
would be cleaner.  What do you guys think about adding a common function
to do this.  Could you test such a patch for me?

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2005-08-09 21:10 Standardize shutdown of the system from enviroment control modules Christoph Hellwig
2005-08-09 21:25 ` Greg Howard
2005-08-09 21:36   ` Standardize shutdown of the system from enviroment control Aaron Young
2005-08-11 12:10 ` Standardize shutdown of the system from enviroment control modules Pavel Machek
2005-08-11 17:37 ` [PATCH, RFC] " Christoph Hellwig
2005-08-26 11:44   ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-08-26 12:22     ` Greg Howard
2005-08-27 13:16       ` Denis Vlasenko

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