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Re: Faster shutdown and the ubuntu "multiuser" update-rc.d extention



On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 12:16:28AM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 12:01:17AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> > 
> >                 # use SIGCONT/signal 18 to check if there are
> >                 # processes left.  No need to check the exit code
> >                 # value, because either killall5 work and it make
> >                 # sense to wait for processes to die, or it fail and
> >                 # there is nothing to wait for.
> > -               killall5 -18 $OMITPIDS || break
> > +
> > +               if killall5 -18 $OMITPIDS ; then
> 
> Why is it using -18?   Please change that to SIGCONT, it depends on the
> arch what the value should be.  See signal(7), which even mentions that
> that is different for ppc/i386.

Which killall5 obviously doesn't support.


Kurt


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