Re: Add common orderly_poweroff() to 2.6.22?

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Date: Thu Jan 24 2008 - 16:13:09 EST


Oliver Pinter (Pintér Olivér) wrote:
the original topic name is : why linux kernel crap ...

the substance is, when from kernel call users-pace program, then come
up more problems with security...
when the fs crash out or the userspace code is breaked, then the
system not shuting down ..

orderly_poweroff() has the option to force a hard shutdown if the exec of the usermode command fails.

J
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