KEYWORD: shutdown

[Andriy Gapon]

on 16/11/2011 19:38 Jilles Tjoelker said the following:
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 06:35:51PM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> I am new to all the rc stuff, so please pardon me if I am asking
>> something obvious or silly. What are the main reasons to _not_ have
>> the "shutdown" keyword in an rc script? What are the examples /
>> usages?
> 
> Traditionally only very few scripts had "shutdown", leaving most of the
> cleanup to the SIGTERM and SIGKILL from init.
> 
> Because it was fairly complicated to get this right (for example, a
> database server needs "shutdown" but also all programs that use it), a
> few years ago it was decided to add "shutdown" everywhere. The slower
> shutdown (a few seconds at most on machines with decent CPUs, but
> possibly rather more on slow embedded machines) was accepted.
> 

So nowadays (or "if I got to do it again") it would make more sense to have
"shutdown" as a default and add "noshutdown" for some hypothetical special cases?

-- 
Andriy Gapon