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From: Nico Schottelius <nico-kernel@schottelius.org>
To: coywolf@lovecn.org
Cc: Nico Schottelius <nico-kernel@schottelius.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: halt: init exits/panic
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 09:30:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051004073007.GA2032@schottelius.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2cd57c9005070910091f1051f7@mail.gmail.com>

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Sorry for the delay.

Coywolf Qi Hunt [Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 01:09:22AM +0800]:
> On 7/9/05, Nico Schottelius <nico-kernel@schottelius.org> wrote:
> > Hello!
> > 
> > What's the 'correct behaviour' of an init system, if someone wants
> > to shutdown the system?
> > 
> > I currently do:
> > 
> > - call reboot(RB_POWER_OFF/RB_AUTOBOOT/RB_HALT_SYSTEM)
> > - _exit(0)
> > 
> > Is this exit() call wrong? If I do RB_HALT_SYSTEM and _exit(0) after,
> > the kernel panics.
> 
> What the panic shows?

"Attempted to kill init!"

--> Panic.

Nico


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  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-04  7:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-09 15:12 halt: init exits/panic Nico Schottelius
2005-07-09 14:26 ` DervishD
2005-07-09 17:09 ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-10-04  7:30   ` Nico Schottelius [this message]
2005-10-04  7:37   ` Nico Schottelius
2005-10-04  8:12     ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-10-04 10:55       ` Nico Schottelius

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