Re: Bogus low-memory mode
Donald Allen, le Wed 29 May 2013 07:50:52 -0400, a écrit :
> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 7:34 AM, Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> wrote:
> > Donald Allen, le Wed 29 May 2013 07:29:42 -0400, a écrit :
> >> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 3:30 AM, Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> wrote:
> >> > Donald Allen, le Tue 28 May 2013 23:31:34 -0400, a écrit :
> >> >> Another issue: on the 600x, I did a
> >> >>
> >> >> shutdown -hP now
> >> >
> >> > Please make sure to read the faq :)
> >>
> >> If 'shutdown' is known not to work and, from the FAQ, apparently does
> >> not work by design, why include it?
> >
> > Because in the end we want shutdown to actually work, there's actually a
> > gsoc project that has just started precisely for that.
> >
> >> make a tiny shutdown script that echoes the FAQ text,
> >
> > It's the sysvinit package which provides it, not the hurd package.
> > Changing the shutdown command would require diverting it, or patching
> > the sysvinit package, etc. which might be even more messy.
>
> Maybe a bit more messy for you, but a lot less messy for users, who
> you are trying to attract, at this point to help you test this system
> and find problems. Why annoy them with something that is known not to
> work by assuming they'll consult a FAQ when they see something that
> looks like a bug? In effect, I'm advocating providing a useful and
> specific error message instead of what currently happens.
Sure, I completely agree on this, that's not the question. The question
is spending time on this. For my part, I'm very busy so didn't take the
time to have a look at how to do this properly. If anybody has the time
to have a look, he's welcome to send a patch.
Samuel
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