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- From: Ulrich Kuehn <kuehn@GOEDEL.UNI-MUENSTER.DE>
- Subject: Re: Suggestions
- Date: Mon, 07 Mar 1994 16:16:21 +0100
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- > > 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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- That would be even a better idea, indeed! What about having mint set up
- a global update daemon which calls a certain Fcntl for every folder on
- drive u: (maybe also for each device) and ignores if it gets an EINVFN.
- This way we would have one update daemon for everything.
-
- Ulrich
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