Re: Let init know user wants to shutdown

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 18 Apr 2001 21:10:37 +0100 (BST)


> willing to exercise this power. We would not break compatibility with
> any std kernel by instead having a apmd send a "reject all" ioctl
> instead, and so deal with events without having the pressure of having
> to reject or accept them, and let us remove all the veto code from the
> kernel driver. Or am I missing something?

That sounds workable. But the same program could reply to the events just
as well as issue the ioctl 8)

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