[systemd-devel] systemd intentional behaviour? (signals)

[Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi]

On 09/07/2012 01:48 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Fri, 24.08.12 00:54, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar) wrote:
>
>> Hello
>>
>> Just for fun I am sending some signals to systemd (188) to see how
>> reacts compared to sysvinit. While sysvinit ignores them or restores
>> from "crash" after 30 seconds of sleep, systemd/journald just logs
>> the status them freezing execution.
>>
>> Example
>>
>> kill -SEGV 1 -> freeze
>> kill -QUIT 1 -> freeze
>>
>> Sending other signal again result in a crash (attemped to kill init)
>>
>> Is this intentional? There is a way to restore systemd again without
>> a forced reboot?
> Yes, this is intentional. If we crash (or the user kills us) we print a
> warning and freeze. If the user kills us again then we return control to
> the kernel. Sounds like a really reasonable reaction to some really
> pointless action by the user.
>
> I mean, the user issued the kill commands, hence he probably has a
> reason to, even if that reason is "I want to shoot myself in the
> foot" -- and hence we do what we do.
>
> Lennart
>

OK, so in case of and internal crash, there is no way, at least this 
moment (maybe in a future?), to restore from "freeze" without doing a 
forced reboot?

Thanks for your answer.

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Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
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