Re: halted system still working as router.

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Mon, 9 Nov 1998 18:16:49 +1300


On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 02:56:14PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:

> > The curious thing was that when the power came back on I found that my
> > computer was still routing traffic to the internet. Is this normal
> > behaviors for a computer that has been halted? Is this a kernel
> > problem, or specific to my machine(or my kernel)?
>
> The way Linux halts its normal.

Why not have something like init/shutdown.c to shutdown drivers on
halt/shutdown, in lifo order probably?

This might even be useful for a daemonless watchdog, maybe.

-cw

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