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- From: Ulrich Kuehn <kuehn@GOEDEL.UNI-MUENSTER.DE>
- Subject: Suggestions
- Date: Mon, 07 Mar 1994 12:11:53 +0100
-
- Hi everybody!
-
- While we now have a write cache with the minix fs, there is a potential
- danger with it: when someone presses alt-cntrl-del before the update
- daemon has synced the fs, there is hight probability of file damage.
- To prevent this, I thought of a mechanism that is invoked on alt-cntrl-del
- and asks the user if he/she really wants to reboot, send signals to all
- processes first etc. That way this problem would be non existing anymore.
-
- A second point: I would really like the mint kernel to know about its
- name before the filesystems and device drivers get loaded. This is for the
- unix style authentification for nfs, the hostname stuff for tcp/ip etc.
- So what about the following: the kernel reads the file \etc\hostname
- and stores the contents (or only the first word of it) in a global variable,
- which can be accessed by a new system call long Shostname(char *s, int len),
- which returns 0 if the hostname fits into the string s which has lenght len,
- or ERANGE otherwise. If you like this idea, I could implement it and send
- the diffs out here.
-
- Regards,
- Ulrich
-
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