On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 02:06 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 07:42:17PM -0400, Simo Sorce wrote: > > > > I am pretty sure we don't want to run Java programs at late boot, as > > > root. This would be really bad. > > > > You know, it's not like there is a choice for many models ... > > That's really not a given. For anything short of us having to send http > requests, there's no fundamental reason why this can't be done > in-kernel. For cases where we do have to send http requests, well, > that's kind of a separate issue (you want to run java after you've > unmounted all the filesystems?) > > > It is not necessary, the hook can be called before you do that last > > operation, the driver will command the UPS to wait long enough for that > > operation to finish in time in 99% of the cases. > > For the remaining 1% of the cases, admins will have to re-tune the delay > > once power comes up and they find it wasn't enough time after all. > > Or we could work on fixing the problem. We're not talking about an > incredibly large maount of code. We are however talking about a lot of different upses and while it is not specifically fedora's problem we do need to have this handled before rhel7, for example, is run on serious systems. -sv -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
