Re: Let init know user wants to shutdown

[Mike Castle]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 11:20:24PM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> In article <[e-mail]>,
> Pavel Machek  <[e-mail]> wrote:
> >Init should get to know that user pressed power button (so it can do
> >shutdown and poweroff). Plus, it is nice to let user know that we can
> 
> Not so hasty ;)
> 
> >+		printk ("acpi: Power button pressed!\n");
> >+		kill_proc (1, SIGTERM, 1);

[reasons deleted]

Is using a signal the appropriate thing to do anyway?

Wouldn't there be better solutions?

Perhaps a mechanism a user space program can use to communicate to the kernel
(ala arpd/kerneld message queues, or something like klogd).  Then a more
general user space tool could be used that would do policy appropriate
stuff, ending with init 0.

mrc
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