RE: [MiNT] SIGPWR

["Julian Reschke" <reschke@muenster.de>]

> Which other signals do you want to implement?
>
> BTW, why shouldn't SIGPWR not be raised?  You can simply "kill -PWR 1" and
> see your machine going down fast.
>
> The powerd shouldn't be a big problem. It's available for Linux, I don't
> see why it couldn't be ported to MiNT.
>
> > If the powerd sends the signal to init, what appropriate
> measures does it
> > take? send everything SIGTERM? So what does init do if you send
> it SIGTERM?
> > would this not have a similar effect?
>
> init takes whatever measures you specify via /etc/inittab.  It can also
> react if the power gets restored and try to cancel a running shutdown.
>
> > To me, this seems like a waste of time, and on a platform with a limited
> > number of developers this seems a very strange thing to be
> worrying about.
>
> So, who is going to use that? I have the chance of getting a UPS and
> believe me, I will try to connect it to my TT because I really have power
> stability problems here.
>
> Who else? Especially here in Germany, there are quite a few commercial
> users who still have an old TT with an ethernet card.  Why shouldn't the
> TT communicate with the UPS and schedule the power failure stuff for the
> other machines on the net?

Why not just use SIGUSR1 for this?