[BusyBox] Ordering on init shutdown.

[Erik Andersen]

On Wed Sep 11, 2002 at 09:06:53AM -0700, Joel Krauska wrote:
> When busybox init gets killed (you reboot or halt....)
> it does three main things in shutdown_system().
> 
> 1. It sends all procs SIGTERM.
> 2. It sends all procs SIGKILL
> 3. It runs the shutdown actions given in /etc/inittab
> 
> I believe the ordering should actually be.
> 
> 1. It runs the shutdown actions given in /etc/inittab
> 2. It sends all procs SIGTERM.
> 3. It sends all procs SIGKILL
> 
> 
> I have some processes that are best killed off in a certain order,
> and I've built the scripts to manage that, but because of init's
> ordering I can't control this.
> 
> Are there reasons the current ordering is preferred?

I can see the advantage of letting people run their 
shutdown actions prior to killing everything.  Changed.

 -Erik

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