From: Simon Richter <Simon.Richter@phobos.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Let init know user wants to shutdown
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 14:42:03 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0104161427400.13558-100000@phobos.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010413002920.C43@(none)>
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Then a more general user space tool could be used that would do policy
> > appropriate stuff, ending with init 0.
> init _is_ the tool which is right for defining policy on such issues.
> Take a look how UPS managment is handled.
A power failure is a different thing from a power button press. There are
users (me for example) who want to have something different then "init 0"
mapped to the power button, for example a sleep state (since my box
doesn't have a dedicated sleep button). I doubt there are many people who
want something else than a shutdown if the power is out (although I think
there will be with suspend-to-disk working, so we might have to change UPS
handling here).
My plan for power management was to have a special daemon that would
decide what to do based on system state (battery status, local time, ...)
and events (power/sleep button, last user logged out, ...) [I know that
from a programmer's POV, both are events]. This daemon could, for example,
make sure that no services are affected, for example by priming WOL and
entering a not-so-deep sleep state instead of doing a suspend-to-disk if
someone is still listening on a port after the "shutdown unimportant
services" scripts have been run.
Simon
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Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-04 22:02 Let init know user wants to shutdown Pavel Machek
2001-04-10 23:20 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2001-04-10 23:30 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2001-04-10 23:38 ` Kurt Roeckx
2001-04-10 23:46 ` Kurt Roeckx
2001-04-10 23:53 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2001-04-10 23:41 ` Mike Castle
2001-04-13 0:29 ` Pavel Machek
2001-04-16 12:42 ` Simon Richter [this message]
2001-04-16 15:49 ` Andreas Ferber
2001-04-16 16:25 ` Simon Richter
2001-04-16 21:27 ` Pavel Machek
2001-04-16 21:44 ` Simon Richter
2001-04-16 22:38 ` Andreas Ferber
2001-04-17 6:16 ` Simon Richter
2001-04-17 8:39 ` Andreas Ferber
2001-04-17 14:09 ` Simon Richter
2001-04-16 21:36 ` Ben Ford
[not found] ` <9b04food@ncc1701.cistron.net>
[not found] ` <9b052eod@ncc1701.cistron.net>
2001-04-13 0:26 ` Pavel Machek
2001-04-10 17:05 Grover, Andrew
2001-04-11 4:23 ` John R Lenton
2001-04-11 14:59 ` John Fremlin
2001-04-11 12:20 ` Pavel Machek
2001-04-11 15:10 ` John Fremlin
2001-04-11 14:56 ` John Fremlin
2001-04-11 4:31 alad
2001-04-11 17:06 Grover, Andrew
2001-04-11 18:29 ` John Fremlin
2001-04-12 17:25 David Balazic
2001-04-16 7:03 ` Pavel Machek
2001-04-16 23:32 Grover, Andrew
2001-04-17 6:40 ` John Fremlin
2001-04-17 6:41 ` Simon Richter
2001-04-17 11:16 ` Pavel Machek
2001-04-17 16:45 Grover, Andrew
2001-04-17 19:54 ` Pavel Machek
2001-04-17 22:23 ` John Fremlin
2001-04-18 15:26 ` Simon Richter
2001-04-18 19:51 ` John Fremlin
2001-04-18 0:07 Grover, Andrew
2001-04-18 0:51 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-18 1:56 ` John Fremlin
2001-04-18 11:55 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-18 19:10 ` John Fremlin
2001-04-18 20:10 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-18 20:21 ` John Fremlin
2001-04-18 21:05 ` Avery Pennarun
2001-04-18 21:34 ` John Fremlin
2001-04-20 17:02 ` Pavel Machek
2001-05-02 16:52 ` John Fremlin
2001-04-20 17:01 ` Pavel Machek
2001-04-20 23:41 ` John Fremlin
2001-04-21 7:54 ` Pavel Machek
2001-04-24 0:17 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-04-24 1:08 ` John Fremlin
2001-04-24 10:06 ` Pavel Machek
2001-04-25 14:28 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-04-25 16:11 ` Richard Gooch
2001-04-18 1:54 ` John Fremlin
2001-04-18 18:28 Grover, Andrew
2001-04-18 18:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-04-18 19:36 ` John Fremlin
2001-04-18 21:46 Grover, Andrew
2001-04-18 22:09 ` David S. Miller
2001-04-18 22:30 ` John Fremlin
2001-04-19 2:16 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-04-19 12:04 ` David Woodhouse
2001-04-18 22:52 Grover, Andrew
2001-04-26 22:10 ` David S. Miller
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