Re: [RFC PATCH 26/35] Add Xen subarch reboot support

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Wed Mar 22 2006 - 10:02:48 EST


On Wednesday 22 March 2006 07:31, Chris Wright wrote:
> + static char *envp[] = { "HOME=/", "TERM=linux",
> + "PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin", NULL };
> + static char *restart_argv[] = { "/sbin/reboot", NULL };
> + static char *poweroff_argv[] = { "/sbin/poweroff", NULL };

It would be better if that was user configurable.

> + extern asmlinkage long sys_reboot(int magic1, int magic2,
> + unsigned int cmd, void *arg);

This is what linux/syscalls.h is there for.



> + daemonize("shutdown");

What is that good for?

> +
> + switch (shutting_down) {
> + case SHUTDOWN_POWEROFF:
> + case SHUTDOWN_HALT:
> + if (execve("/sbin/poweroff", poweroff_argv, envp) < 0) {

You should probably keep track if the execve already happened and if it is called
again do the sys_reboot directly.


-Andi
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