Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 Apr 2001 19:25:44 +0200 | From | David Balazic <> | Subject | Re: Let init know user wants to shutdown |
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Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz) wrote :
> Hi! > > Init should get to know that user pressed power button (so it can do > shutdown and poweroff). Plus, it is nice to let user know that we can > read such event. [I hunted bug for few hours, thinking that kernel > does not get the event at all]. > > Here's patch to do that. Please apply, > Pavel
Isn't it better to just send the event to userspace , where is it caught by apmd ( or whatever has replaced it ). Then it can decide what to do about it, instead of dictating a shutdown from kernel ( policy alert ;-) )
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