On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 08:39:07AM +1000, matthew green wrote:
> FWIW, my sparc64 boxes that don't run powerd shutdown pretty much immediately
> if you press the soft-power button (eg, on the U5/U10 style boxes.)  this is
> a kernel-initiated process and userland won't have much/any chance to do any
> cleanup, but filesystems should be unmounted cleanly at least...

Yes, if userland is not listening to the message (or the sysmon devices
are not configured) the kernel will shutdown the hard way.

That's not very friendly to deamon processes though. With powerd you get
a very clean shutdown.

Martin