Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Apr 2001 17:26:42 +0200 (CEST) | From | Simon Richter <> | Subject | RE: Let init know user wants to shutdown |
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On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Grover, Andrew wrote:
> We are going to need some software that handles button events, as well as > thermal events, battery events, polling the battery, AC adapter status > changes, sleeping the system, and more.
Yes, that will be a separate daemon that will also get the events. But I think it's a good idea to have a simple interface that allows the user to run arbitrary commands when ACPI events occur, even without acpid running (think of singleuser mode, embedded systems, ...).
> Unix philosophy: "do one thing and do it well".
Another Unix philosophy: "keep it simple, stupid". :-)
Simon
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