Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 22:21:18 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl> To: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>, "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/reboot reboot.c Message-ID: <20010322222118.A2880@freebie.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <20010323080736.A8221@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>; from peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au on Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 08:07:36AM %2B1100 References: <200103210507.f2L57rs76820@aslan.scsiguy.com> <200103212023.aa36148@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> <20010323080736.A8221@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>
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On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 08:07:36AM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2001-Mar-21 20:23:35 +0000, Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie> wrote: > >In message <200103210507.f2L57rs76820@aslan.scsiguy.com>, "Justin T. Gibbs" wri > >tes: > >>Why not put an implementation in libutil or some other place > >>where they can be shared. > > > >This is complicated by the differing needs of the two programs - > >init(8) waits in waitpid() so it can reap zombies whereas reboot(8) > >just uses sleep(). A library function that contains most of the > >logic sounds like a good idea though. > > Instead of moving the common functionality into a common library, > why not move it into a common process. Why can't reboot(8) just > ask init(8) to massacre all the processes and reboot? (Or, vice > versa, init could spawn reboot(8) to do the same thing). Isn't that what a SysV init does? W/ -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@freebsd.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte http://www.freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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