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

from [Jeremy Katz]

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To:	Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject:	Re: [Xen-devel] execve() in reboot.c ?
From:	Jeremy Katz <katzj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date:	Mon, 25 Jul 2005 13:56:32 -0400
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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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