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Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 16:09:10 +0200 (CEST)
From: Simon Richter <Simon.Richter@phobos.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de>
To: Andreas Ferber <aferber@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de>
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Subject: Re: Let init know user wants to shutdown
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On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Andreas Ferber wrote:

[Extending the current signalling mechanism]

> The problem with this is that there is no single init. Most
> distribution run the same SysV init, but there are quite a few init
> replacements around. Should we really break all of them?

We don't break anything as long as noone sets the config option. People
who want to use this feature need a current init.

   Simon

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