[BusyBox] Reset halts but doesn't reboot

[Andrew McKay]

Hi,

I'm having problems with the "reset" command in BusyBox.  I have tried 
to figure out the code involved in the reset as much as possible.  It 
seems that what is happening is that the system call that tells the 
Linux kernel to reset the board is failing.  The cause seems to be when 
init sends SIGKILL to all of the running processes, after this command 
is complete the Kernel does not want to respond to init_reboot(RB_AUTOBOOT);

I have messages that are printed to the Terminal after the SIGKILL, so 
the init task is not killing itself (which from what I understand is 
actually impossible).  If I move the init_reboot(RB_AUTOBOOT) call to 
before the SIGKILL, the board is able to reset.  Is the SIGKILL somehow 
stopping system calls from working? 

Has anyone run into this before?  If not, is the SIGKILL really 
necessary?  Is it going to hurt anything to skip that step and just 
reset the board anyways?  I believe that SIGKILL a last resort way to 
kill a task, and doesn't stop it nicely, so just rebooting the board 
wouldn't be much worse.

I was using BusyBox 0.51.  I tried compiling BusyBox 1.00, and it seems 
to be having the same problem.

Thanks for any help,
Andrew