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  1. Bug #59134
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Comment 11 for bug 59134

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Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote : Re: [Bug 59134] Re: upstart fails to power off my system

On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 12:48 +0000, Colin Watson wrote:

> I compared upstart's halt/poweroff implementation to sysvinit's, and
> there are a few differences which might be relevant. After #define
> translation, the halt/poweroff bit in sysvinit does:
>
> reboot(RB_ENABLE_CAD);
> kill(1, SIGTSTP);
> if (do_poweroff)
> reboot(RB_POWER_OFF);
> reboot(RB_HALT);
>
> The fallthrough appears to be deliberate; RB_ENABLE_CAD seems at least
> useful; and is it possible that the kernel's getting stuck before
> poweroff because init hasn't been SIGTSTPed?
>
This is pretty much the same as upstart's implementation ... the only
difference is that I use a switch() rather than a fall-through.

The kernel just has a switch() there too, so it's definitely not that.

Scott
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