Re: init/umount problem persists

[Erik Andersen <andersen@xmission.com>]

On Fri Feb 04, 2000 at 05:49:02PM +0900, Taketoshi Sano wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> In <[🔎] 20000201093237.B5F6A21835@cybil.onshore.com>,
>  at Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 03:32:37 -0600,
>   on Subject: init/umount problem persists,
>    Adam Di Carlo <apharris@onshore.com> writes:
> 
> > I still show that the root filesystem isn't being cleanly
> > unmounted on reboot.  Odd...
> 
> I will commit the following change into CVS. Try this:
> 

[-----patch replacing waitfor() with system() snipped-------]

I don't understand this change.  Have you tested it?
Does it help?  If so, I do not understand how or why. 

Furthermore, running system(3) is invoking /bin/sh and 
so it has a much higher cost then using init's run() 
function.

 -Erik

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