-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, 2010-05-14 at 20:55 -0700, Marc Chamberlin wrote: ...
FWIW I have seen another aspect of what I consider is a serious design flaw of the Linux kernel, in the shutdown/reboot processes. Some programs (MythTV comes immediately to my mind) can actually intercept the shutdown/reboot request and prevent it! And man does that infuriate me when I see it happen!!! When the OS receives a shutdown or reboot request, NOTHING short of a serious hardware failure should prevent it, IMHO. And NO app or process should EVER be allowed to prevent it. A shutdown or reboot request may have been initiated in response to an emergency, (especially in a situation like mine where I am remotely administering a computer and cannot be there to hit the power down button) therefore the Linux kernel must absolutely honor the request and force the shutdown or reboot to take place, regardless of any protests/failure from some darn app or process!
Are you sure it is the kernel that is at fault here, or is it the stop script (not the kernel) that is stoped/aborted? I guess it is the script, and this is not at all part of the kernel. It is part of the distribution, the basesystem packages. Probably initd or rc. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkvucYQACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UfRACZAXKNIOJffH+q6ZhTyGJxUQGx T8cAnAzsKRLe7hrcN/8gJitqdm3xlz96 =FxTZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org