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Date:      Mon, 7 Aug 2006 11:55:10 +0930
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        cvs-all@freebsd.org
Cc:        Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, src-committers@freebsd.org, Bruce M Simpson <bms@freebsd.org>, cvs-src@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/reboot reboot.c
Message-ID:  <200608071155.12122.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <86oduxx2a5.fsf@xps.des.no>
References:  <200608021305.k72D5c9R055142@repoman.freebsd.org> <86oduxx2a5.fsf@xps.des.no>

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On Monday 07 August 2006 01:52, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:
> Bruce M Simpson <bms@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> >   Log:
> >   Block a variety of signals which may afffect reboot(8), before killing
> >   init(8), to avoid losing a race to them and dying before being able
> >   to call reboot(2).
>
> Wouldn't it be more logical to have init(8) perform the reboot(2) call
> upon receiving a signal from reboot(8)?

You wouldn't be able to reboot the system in single user mode then would yo=
u?
(Unless you are local and your keymap allows ctrl-alt-del to work anyway)

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Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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