From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 22 00:26:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA22578 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 00:26:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA22548 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 00:25:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA27342; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 09:25:04 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id JAA26344; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 09:15:51 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 09:15:51 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: adam@veda.is (Adam David) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: reboot(8) and slow-dying processes References: <199701212329.XAA00566@veda.is> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199701212329.XAA00566@veda.is>; from Adam David on Jan 21, 1997 23:29:22 +0000 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Adam David wrote: > reboot(8) is very unforgiving in that it only allows 5 seconds for > processes to tidy up and exit gracefully, but there may be processes > that need a longer delay before they are slaughtered as a last > resort (for instance large database applications). The projected solution to this is rc.shutdown, with an adjustable `grace time' (maximum period init should wait for the processes to complete shutting down). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)