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

On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 02:13:25PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Mark Williamson wrote:
> 
> > It'd be nice if Linux had a generic way of communicating a reboot 
> > request to userspace.  It ought to be useful on other VMMs - maybe this 
> > is something for Rik's common infrastructure wishlist?
> 
> 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.

-- 
Vincent Hanquez

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