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Re: [Xen-devel] execve() in reboot.c ?

To: Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Jeremy Katz <katzj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 13:56:32 -0400
Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Ian Pratt <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Delivery-date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 17:55:56 +0000
List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xensource.com>

On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 18:47 +0100, Mark Williamson wrote:
> Can't we just fire off a kernel thread to call sys_reboot and friends 
> directly?  It seems unfortunate to have to rely on userspace applications, 
> having gone to the trouble of handling the cmsg in the kernel.

That doesn't do a graceful shutdown of running processes, does it?

Jeremy


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