On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Dave Jones (davej(a)redhat.com) said:
> Somewhat dated now, but here's the log from FC5-ish system from
> the point of clicking 'shutdown' on the gnome menu..
>
>
http://people.redhat.com/davej/filemon/09-shutdown
>
> My personal belief is that the initscripts need a way to distinguish
> between 'service foo stop' and 'system is shutting down'.
> It should be perfectly fine to shut down the majority of services
> uncleanly.
> killing dhclient, disabling iptables, ifdown'ing interfaces etc
> all strikes me as a glorious waste of time.
I prototyped this once a few years (ugh) ago - the simple solution
cut shutdown time in half. It's just a matter of how cleanly we
want to implement it.
"How cleanly we want to implement unclean shutdown?" Maybe I'm just tired
but I find that rather hilarious :)
- Panu -