Re: halt: init exits/panic

[Nico Schottelius]

Sorry for the delay.

Coywolf Qi Hunt [Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 01:09:22AM +0800]:
> On 7/9/05, Nico Schottelius <nico-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hello!
> > 
> > What's the 'correct behaviour' of an init system, if someone wants
> > to shutdown the system?
> > 
> > I currently do:
> > 
> > - call reboot(RB_POWER_OFF/RB_AUTOBOOT/RB_HALT_SYSTEM)
> > - _exit(0)
> > 
> > Is this exit() call wrong? If I do RB_HALT_SYSTEM and _exit(0) after,
> > the kernel panics.
> 
> What the panic shows?

"Attempted to kill init!"

--> Panic.

Nico


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