[interfacekit] Re: Shutdown Process

Ingo Weinhold <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> 
> On 2005-07-07 at 02:23:09 [+0200], Axel Dörfler wrote:
> > "DarkWyrm" <bpmagic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Why is there a point of no return? How much effort would it take 
> > > to
> > > allow cancellation of shutdown up to when _kern_shutdown() is 
> > > called?
> > > One thing that I have done (and I'm pretty sure others have) is
> > > accidentally hit 'Reboot' or 'Shutdown' in the Deskbar. Couldn't 
> > > a
> > > script be called which checks to see if each nonvital server is
> > > running
> > > and start it back up if it isn't? It certainly would be a nice 
> > > thing
> > > to
> > > have, if nothing else.
> > 
> > I think that's the wrong point to change. I would rather see 
> > "Shutdown"
> > open a window where you can choose if you really want to turn off 
> > the
> > computer.
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> > Dunno if that should be part of the registrar, though.
> 
> No, I think that should be the responsibility of the Deskbar. 
> Otherwise you 
> would get the same alert when invoking "shutdown" in the command line 
> -- 
> and I suppose you won't accidentially type this one. :-)
> 
shutdown --no-prompt -r now?


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Mikael Jansson
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