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Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:12:50 -0800
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
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CC: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
       Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
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       Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
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Subject: Re: Add common orderly_poweroff() to 2.6.22?
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Oliver Pinter (Pint?r Oliv?r) wrote:
> the original topic name is : why linux kernel crap ...
>
> the substance is, when from kernel call users-pace program, then come
> up more problems with security...
> when the fs crash out or the userspace code is breaked, then the
> system not shuting down ..
>   

orderly_poweroff() has the option to force a hard shutdown if the exec 
of the usermode command fails.

    J
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