RE: [MiNT] What's in, what's out?

[Martin-Eric Racine <q-funk@pp.fishpool.fi>]

On 29.11.1999, Julian Reschke <reschke@medicaldataservice.de> wrote:

> It sounds like: "I believe somebody needs this feature --
> let's add it. If we need that signal for something else, we
> will just change it or we will be stuck because it's already
> in use..." Am I the only one who's got a problem with that
> concept?

Both myself and Mario (maybe others, I don't recall) pointed out
that since what's desired is a shutdown(); then having a daemon
that requests one should be sufficient.

Mario even pointed out that, on his Linux PC (where SIGPWR is
already available), he does things that way.

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