Re: OLS and console rearchitecture

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>]

"Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@cistron.nl> writes:

> In article <410E55AA.8030709@ums.usu.ru>,
> Alexander E. Patrakov <patrakov@ums.usu.ru> wrote:
>>Jon Smirl wrote:
>>> 15) Over time user space console will be moved to a model where VT's
>>> are implemented in user space. This allows user space console access to
>>> fully accelerated drawing libraries. This might allow removal of all of
>>> the tty/vc layer code avoiding the need to fix it for SMP.
>>
>>One more minor problem. We need to ensure somehow that the "killall5" 
>>program from the sysvinit package will not kill our userspace console 
>>daemon at shutdown (got this when I tried to put fbiterm into 
>>initramfs). What is the best way to achieve that?
>
> A configuration file for killall5 in which services/daemons get
> defined that should not be signalled ?

IMHO a better solution would be some kind of process flag that can be
interrogated by killall5.

Andreas.

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