On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 17:01 -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Sun, 1 May 2005, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
>
> > Hub driver is using SIGKILL to terminate khubd. Unfortunately on a number of
> > distributions switching init levels implicitly does "killall -9", killing
> > khubd. The only way to restart it is to reload USB subsystem.
> >
> > Is signal usage in this case really needed? What about replacing it with
> > simple flag (i.e. will patch be accepted)?
>
> IMO the problem lies in those distributions. They should not
> indiscrimately kill processes when switching init levels.
It's probably not indiscriminate, all the init scripts I have seen only
resort to kill -9 if the process fails to terminate in an orderly
fashion via the /etc/rcX.d/Kfoo script.
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