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Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 17:26:42 +0200 (CEST)
From: Simon Richter <Simon.Richter@phobos.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de>
To: "Grover, Andrew" <andrew.grover@intel.com>
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Subject: RE: Let init know user wants to shutdown
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On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Grover, Andrew wrote:

> We are going to need some software that handles button events, as well as
> thermal events, battery events, polling the battery, AC adapter status
> changes, sleeping the system, and more.

Yes, that will be a separate daemon that will also get the events. But I
think it's a good idea to have a simple interface that allows the user to
run arbitrary commands when ACPI events occur, even without acpid running
(think of singleuser mode, embedded systems, ...).

> Unix philosophy: "do one thing and do it well".

Another Unix philosophy: "keep it simple, stupid". :-)

   Simon

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