Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 03:40:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Dmitrij Tejblum <dima@tejblum.dnttm.rssi.ru> To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: bin/3202: shutdown(8) don't work if started from an X Window Manager menu Message-ID: <199704061040.DAA14341@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/3202; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Dmitrij Tejblum <dima@tejblum.dnttm.rssi.ru>
To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/3202: shutdown(8) don't work if started from an X Window Manager menu
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 14:27:34 +0400 (MSD)
On Sat, 5 Apr 1997, J Wunsch wrote:
> I don't think it's a good fix. If at all, shutdown itself should
> prevent the signal delivery to reboot(8). After all, shutdown is the
> program that goes into background, while reboot is a plain foreground
> program (which i expect to be able to abort using ^C if i hit it
> quickly after typing the command).
Well, second variant:
*** src/sbin/shutdown/shutdown.c.orig Sat Mar 29 21:48:33 1997
--- src/sbin/shutdown/shutdown.c Sun Apr 6 13:58:18 1997
***************
*** 199,204 ****
--- 199,205 ----
(void)printf("shutdown: [pid %d]\n", forkpid);
exit(0);
}
+ setsid();
}
#endif
openlog("shutdown", LOG_CONS, LOG_AUTH);
>
> Note that you should also get away with something like
>
> ... exec "trap 1 2 15 ''; shutdown -h now"
>
> in your window manager menu.
>
Probably. But such things cannot be called "user-friendly".
Dima
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