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

[Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Vincent Hanquez wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 02:13:25PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:

> > 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.

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