On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:54:18 +0100 Lennart Poettering <mzerqung@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 17.01.11 14:31, Petr Pisar (ppisar@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > > > > On 2011-01-17, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > Now when you send a signal to the watchdog daemon, it can take > > > several seconds to shut down. > > > > I hope systemd and similar inits running daemons on foreground solve > > this problem simply by waiting for the child's PID. > > Yes, that's what happens in systemd. However we currently use SIGKILL > after a timeout, if the normal kill signal (SIGTERM usually) didn't > work. I have now added to my TODO list to make this SIGKILL step > optional. SIGKILLing databases and similar stuff is not a good idea indeed, they may be committing data to disk, and you don't want to corrupt data if it can be helped. Simo. -- Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
