reboot

[walter harms]

no idea,
i have to admit an mistake. reboot sends init a SIGTERM not a SIGKILL.

re,
	walter


Rob Landley wrote:
> On Sunday 16 October 2005 07:35, walter harms wrote:
>>hi Rob,
>>i tried the busybox reboot command with my embedded board works fine.
>>but when i try to kill init (with kill) to cause a reboot ... no success.
>>i suspect that killing init may not cause a reboot under all circumstances.
> 
> When did this _ever_ work?  PID 1 has the kill signal blocked in the kernel.
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> Rob
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