Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: strange gentoo shutdown sequence

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On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 05:16:08PM +0200, Sven K?hler wrote:
> >init(8) itself sends the TERM and KILL signals when changing runlevels, and
> >there's no way around that, save patching init.
> 
> redhat does it the other way round. redhat first calls all init.d 
> scripts and then the TERM and KILL signals are send - so did redhat 
> patch init?

I don't know; I don't use RHL or RHEL.  However, I suspect they work just
as Gentoo does.  init(8) first signals the processes in its process group,
so you'll see:

INIT: Switching to runlevel 0
INIT: Sending processes the TERM signal
INIT: Sending processes the KILL signal

on the console.  Then init runs the RHL shutdown scripts, the final one of
which probably sends all processes SIGTERM and SIGKILL, just like Gentoo's
/etc/init.d/halt.sh does.

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