init: post kill-all-processes action?

Doug Graham dgraham at nortel.com
Wed Aug 20 00:57:19 UTC 2008


On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 02:53:13AM +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 August 2008 17:40, Doug Graham wrote:
> > We could try doing this by having our shutdown action kill all processes
> > before doing the unmount, but this could be tricky.  The "kill -1"
> > might kill some process that we don't want killed, such as the shell
> > process that is launched to run the shutdown action.
> > 
> > So I think it makes sense to allow for an action to be run after all
> > processes have been killed.  Thoughts?
> 
> I don't use init at all (my init is a shell script).
> 
> I shut down my machine basically with sequence of
> sync, killall5 -TERM, umount -a, killall5 -KILL
> wiht some sleeps inserted in between.

Hmmm.  Never heard of killall5 before, but it looks like exactly what
I'm looking for.  Will give it a try.

Thanks,
Doug



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