[BusyBox] bug#1179: init uses differant signals than sysvinit (causes problems)

[Adam Slattery]

Package: busybox
  Version: 0.51
  Severity: wishlist


Busybox uses USR1 and USR2 for halts and TERM for reboots.  sysvinit uses
completely differant signals.  The change is mostly fundamental, but there
is a (small) problem that this creates.


There is a kernel bug with magic sysrq where if you use tErm it still
sends SIGTERM to init, hence it will reboot a busybox machine.  I just
reported this to the kernel mailing list about 20 minutes ago, but all
older systems will have this problem.


Ignoring the sysrq problem, there are no major issues that arise from this
differance in behavior so this should be a wishlist item.  It should
eventually be changed since busybox init attempts to behave somewhat like
sysvinit in most respects.


Thanks,
Adam Slattery
Sunrise Linux Development Team
aslattery at sunriselinux.com