Re: [gentoo-dev] strange gentoo shutdown sequence

[William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>]

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Hi all,

On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 01:40:08PM +0200, Sven K?hler wrote:
> hi,
> 
> gentoo usually does the following if i execute halt or reboot:
> 
> sending all processes the TERM signal
> sending all processes the KILL signal
> stopping xdm ...
> stopping alsasound ...
> etc....
> 
> in may eyes, this has to be the other way round:
> first shutdown all deamons properly with the init.d-script, and than 
> send the remaining processes the TERM and KILL signals.
> 
> 
> why does gentoo handle things the way it does? redhat etc. do it the 
> other way i described. using the init.d-script sounds more resonable to me.

I just confirmed this.  When you do a shutdown or a reboot or halt, the processes are killed by the kill and term signals before the services are actually stopped with the /etc/init.d/* scripts.

Is there a reason for this or should it be the other way around?

William
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