From owner-cvs-all Sat Jan 30 23:05:17 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA22158 for cvs-all-outgoing; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 23:05:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from spinner.netplex.com.au (spinner.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA22146; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 23:05:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from spinner.netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spinner.netplex.com.au (8.9.2/8.9.2/Netplex) with ESMTP id PAA02086; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 15:05:04 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@spinner.netplex.com.au) Message-Id: <199901310705.PAA02086@spinner.netplex.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Bruce Evans cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, msmith@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_shutdown.c In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 31 Jan 1999 17:29:23 +1100." <199901310629.RAA24135@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 15:05:04 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Bruce Evans wrote: > >> > Log: > >> > Add a new sysctl node kern.shutdown, off which shutdown-related things > >> > can be hung. > >> > >> WHy have a whole hierarchy for this? The old kern-level variable > >> kern.shutdown_timeout was so important that it was never used. > > > >I did, and I suspect that other people that ran things like squid certainly > >did too. > > Actually, it was actually used by init(8) even in /usr/src, so it should > not have been removed. However, storing application variables in the > kernel is bogus. Well, yes, it would be better in the init(8) control file. If we had an inittab style file this would be easy as it's a general purpose launcher/ sequencer. However, we've got the braindead tty-specific ttys file which is painfully connected to the layout of the utmp file. :-( > Bruce Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message