[Toybox] init patch a month or two back?

[Isaac Dunham]

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 04:12:00AM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> I'm going through my todo heap and trying to make sure I got all the
> patches from the previous couple months, and I hit:
> 
> commit 991b570a02ce8754bba921e46d953858ed28268c
> Author: Isaac Dunham <ibid.ag at gmail.com>
> Date:   Sat Mar 28 20:22:57 2015 +0000
> 
>     Increase compatability of reboot and init
> 
>     * init: recognize SIGINT, use xsignal()
>     * reboot: add "-f" mode, make default signal init
> 
> In the git repo I pulled from you. That's the only one I haven't applied
> yet. How much of this is still relevant?
 
None; see commit a12eec740.

> Using xsignal from PID 1 seems inadvisable, but the -f mode seems like a
> good idea...? Do you remember where we left off on this? Is there a more
> recent version I missed?

Some version of that got applied, then a couple fixes on top of it.

If there were a version of xsignal() that didn't die on failure it would
be better; using xsignal() is about SA_RESTART vs. SA_ONESHOT (if I'm
remembering the names correctly).

HTH,
Isaac Dunham

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