Re: OLS and console rearchitecture

From: Miquel van Smoorenburg
Date: Mon Aug 02 2004 - 11:08:06 EST


In article <410E55AA.8030709@xxxxxxxxxx>,
Alexander E. Patrakov <patrakov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Jon Smirl wrote:
>> 15) Over time user space console will be moved to a model where VT's
>> are implemented in user space. This allows user space console access to
>> fully accelerated drawing libraries. This might allow removal of all of
>> the tty/vc layer code avoiding the need to fix it for SMP.
>
>One more minor problem. We need to ensure somehow that the "killall5"
>program from the sysvinit package will not kill our userspace console
>daemon at shutdown (got this when I tried to put fbiterm into
>initramfs). What is the best way to achieve that?

A configuration file for killall5 in which services/daemons get
defined that should not be signalled ?

Mike.
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