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

["Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > > How about simply reusing whatever signal is sent to init when 
> > > ctrl-alt-del is pressed on PCs ?
> > 
> > SIGINT
> > 
> > That's not a good idea though, if somebody put nothing in the 
> > ctrlaltdel action, then it's not going to do anything.
> 
> But isn't that exactly what we want ?   A userspace configurable
> way to trigger a system reboot.

I kind of like this approach, but it does mean that we can't distinguish
between a poweroff and a reboot. Do we care?

As I recall, the current approach was copied from one of the other Linux
architectures. 

Ian

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