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- Subject: Re: Suggestions
- Date: Mon, 7 Mar 1994 10:03:18 -0500 (EST)
- From: Chris Herborth <herborth@53iss6.waterloo.ncr.com>
- In-Reply-To: <9403071111.AA20080@math.uni-muenster.de> from "Ulrich Kuehn" at Mar 7, 94 12:11:53 pm
- Message-Id: <9403071005.ab25749@ncrhub1.NCR.COM>
-
- What you wrote:
- >
- > 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.
-
- I'd much rather have the update daemon called automagically when I
- Ctrl-Alt-Del, and the a slight pause of ~ 1 second for the disk buffers
- to clear, and _then_ carry out the reboot. When I Ctrl-Alt-Del, it's
- usually because something horrendous has happened, and you can't guarentee
- that terminal I/O will be working nicely...
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