Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 03:15:42 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net> Cc: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl>, 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, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/reboot reboot.c Message-ID: <200103230315.f2N3FgR04938@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net> of "Thu, 22 Mar 2001 20:06:35 EST." <3ABAA19B.6D5EF41B@bellatlantic.net>
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> Wilko Bulte wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 08:07:36AM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote:
>
> > > 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?
>
> No, it calls uadmin for actual reboot/shutdown.
Under sysv the uadmin() args are determined by the signal that's sent
to init.
It's possible for any process (with the correct credentials)
to call uadmin - I believe reboot and halt both call uadmin()
directly. AFAIK the only thing on sysv that mucks around with
killing processes and init scripts is init itself.
> -SB
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