Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:40:37 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote: > >> > Neil even proposed ALT + >> > SysRq + EISUB, to be sure everything is killed, sync'd and >> > unmounted. >> >> Which might or might not work. But note that I was also talking >> about applications being in a corrupted state (the database example). > > E sends a SIGTERM to all applications. Any well behaved application > should shut down cleanly on this.
No doubt :) But if the app hangs, it might not respond to TERM. > I sends a SIGKILL, but it only affects > programs that were so locked up they ignored E, so you have nothing to > lose by then. Correct. But nonetheless, there's still the risk that the KILL has destroyed the application database (sort of - more correctly: that the application and its database was in a "non consistent" state when it received the signal). Michael -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
