>On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Phil Knaack wrote:
>: I like jfw's idea of having init catch sigusr1 and spawn /sbin/reboot,
>: and have pcvt send sigusr1 signal to init instead of *shudder* calling
>: cpu_reset.

>Why even _spawn_ a reboot command?  Just call reboot(2).

I have only one word for that:  ewwww. :)

In terms of the cleanup that gets done, that's only slightly marginally
better than cpu_reset. :)

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Phillip F Knaack
Systems Administrator, Information Development -- Expanding Awareness (IDEA)
Tech Junkie / Junk Techie / Administrator of Many Dinky Computers
Iowa State University Extension