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- From: kapela@prism.poly.edu (Theodore S. Kapela)
- Subject: Broken patched init (Was Re: 386BSD or LINUX?)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.141026.5652@prism.poly.edu>
- Organization: Polytechnic University, New York
- References: <1992Nov4.052106.29266@menudo.uh.edu> <1992Nov4.131541.15661@prism.poly.edu> <1992Nov17.045443.20013@cs.chalmers.se>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 14:10:26 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.045443.20013@cs.chalmers.se> augustss@cs.chalmers.se (Lennart Augustsson) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov4.131541.15661@prism.poly.edu> kapela@prism.poly.edu (Theodore S. Kapela) writes:
- >>the bad buffers back to disk, writing over the fixes made by fsck (using the
- >>raw partition). I haven't really had a chance to check this out yet.
- >Add the line
- > trap : 15
- >at the start of /etc/rc to fix the problem. reboot send SIGTERM to all
- >processes and it is not ignored by default by the shell. (One one the 58
- >patches caused this behaviour.)
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- I came across a note about one of the patches in the patchkit, which also fixed
- my problem. There is a missing semicolon as part of the
- "send SIGTERM, sleep, send SIGKILL" patch to init. Replacing the
- semicolon fixed this problem. (Near line 234 in init.c, I beleive).
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- Theodore S. Kapela kapela@poly.edu
- Center for Applied Large-Scale Computing
- Polytechnic University
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