Eric Andersen 2c1de61023 There have been many reports of init failing to reboot and/or failing to halt ... over the years. Well I finally took the time to track this down. It turns out that inside linux/kernel/sys.c the kernel will call machine_halt(); do_exit(0); when halting, or will call machine_power_off(); do_exit(0); during a reboot. Unlike sysv init, we call reboot from within the init process, so if the call to machine_halt() or machine_power_off() returns, the call to do_exit(0) will cause the kernel to panic. Which is a very bad thing to happen. So I just added this little patch to fork and call the reboot syscall from within the forked child process, thereby neatly avoiding the problem. But IMHO, both calls to do_exit(0) within linux/kernel/sys.c are bugs and should be fixed. -Erik		2003-04-24 11:41:28 +00:00
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Config.in
halt.c	Major coreutils update.	2003-03-19 09:13:01 +00:00
init.c	There have been many reports of init failing to reboot and/or failing to halt	2003-04-24 11:41:28 +00:00
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Makefile.in
mesg.c	Major coreutils update.	2003-03-19 09:13:01 +00:00
poweroff.c	Major coreutils update.	2003-03-19 09:13:01 +00:00
reboot.c	Major coreutils update.	2003-03-19 09:13:01 +00:00
start_stop_daemon.c	Major coreutils update.	2003-03-19 09:13:01 +00:00