> > 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
-- GPG public key available from http://phobos.fs.tum.de/pgp/Simon.Richter.asc Fingerprint: DC26 EB8D 1F35 4F44 2934 7583 DBB6 F98D 9198 3292 Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/