On Sun, 2009-07-12 at 20:27 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > * Document in halt(8) that -n might not disable all syncing. > The Upstart reboot(8) tool doesn't have any of the code to down interfaces, park hard drives or sync the filesystem anymore. After extensive kernel diving, we came to the conclusion that none of it was necessary.
Maybe not interesting, you probably have to care about different kernels and older kernels, but worth saying :-) > * Adjust output from "last -x". In reboot lines, print endpoint > of uptime too. In shutdown lines print downtimes rather than > the time between downs. Fix typo in string compare in last.c. > Patch by Thomas Hood. > We should probably check to make sure that Upstart's reboot(8), telinit (8) and shutdown(8) generate compatible utmp entries. > * Fix utmp/wtmp updating on 64-bit platforms. Patch by Bill > Nottingham and Fedora. > What was this patch? > * Allow 'telinit u' in runlevels 0 and 6. Patch from Thomas Hood. > What runlevels are "telinit u" normally allowed in in sysvinit? > * Add usleep in killall5 after killing processes, to force the kernel > to reschedule. Patch from SuSe. > Not sure why this would work? kill() is a syscall anyway, so the kernel should already make its own scheduling decisions. I noticed a strange case with killall, it seems to cause the Upstart rc.conf job to get SIGSTOP/SIGCONT repeatedly? > * Modify init to shut down IDE, SCSI and SATA disks properly. Patches > from Sebastian Reichelt, Werner Fink and SuSe. > See above; we don't have any of this in the Upstart code - what were the patches? > * Change shutdown to only accept flags -H and -P with the -h flag, > and document this requirement in the manual page. > Why this change? It seems more userfriendly for -H and -P to "imply" -h, Upstart's shutdown(8) permits "shutdown -H now" > * Change reboot/halt to work properly when used as a login shell. > Patch by Dale R. Worley and Fedora. > What was this patch? Scott -- Scott James Remnant [email protected]
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