Re: halted system still working as router.

Rogier Wolff (R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl)
Mon, 9 Nov 1998 12:22:04 +0100 (MET)

Mailing List Account wrote:
> 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?

SuSE does this. (Forget Red Hat, use SuSE :-)

Roger.

P.S.: Please don't start discussing one distr versus another. Everyone
has his preference. I made mine clear, I know you have yours. The fact
that SuSE does it right, demonstrates that this has nothing to do with
the kernel. Feel free to discuss further elsewhere.

P.P.S: That "PS" shouldn't have been neccesary. 

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