From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>,
linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] init 1 kill khubd on 2.6.11
Date: Sun, 01 May 2005 17:21:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1114982502.23614.1.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0505011659130.19155-100000@netrider.rowland.org>
On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 17:01 -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Sun, 1 May 2005, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
>
> > Hub driver is using SIGKILL to terminate khubd. Unfortunately on a number of
> > distributions switching init levels implicitly does "killall -9", killing
> > khubd. The only way to restart it is to reload USB subsystem.
> >
> > Is signal usage in this case really needed? What about replacing it with
> > simple flag (i.e. will patch be accepted)?
>
> IMO the problem lies in those distributions. They should not
> indiscrimately kill processes when switching init levels.
It's probably not indiscriminate, all the init scripts I have seen only
resort to kill -9 if the process fails to terminate in an orderly
fashion via the /etc/rcX.d/Kfoo script.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-01 21:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-01 16:21 Andrey Borzenkov
2005-05-01 21:01 ` [linux-usb-devel] " Alan Stern
2005-05-01 21:21 ` Lee Revell [this message]
2005-05-01 22:30 ` Andrew Morton
2005-05-01 22:46 ` Nish Aravamudan
2005-05-01 22:55 ` Andrew Morton
2005-05-02 0:42 ` Nish Aravamudan
2005-05-02 0:31 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-05-02 8:00 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2005-05-02 9:30 ` Andrew Morton
2005-05-02 12:18 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2005-05-02 17:58 ` Andrey Borzenkov
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