cvs commit: src/sbin/reboot reboot.c

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Monday 07 August 2006 01:52, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Bruce M Simpson <bms at 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 you?
(Unless you are local and your keymap allows ctrl-alt-del to work anyway)

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