[systemd-devel] Allow stop jobs to be killed during shutdown

[Lennart Poettering]

On Sat, 25.01.14 16:41, Dominique Michel (dominique.michel at vtxnet.ch) wrote:

> > So there is a 5s timeout before displaying that, but all it does is
> > tell you how many jobs are waiting and not how long it's going to
> > wait for them.
> > 
> > If the user sits and watches that animation for 20s they'll likely
> > think "ahh well this is stuck" and yank the cord, not knowing that
> > things will be done cleanly if they just wait another 10s.
> I fully agree. At my work, 20s are already a lot of time when it is
> time to go.
> 
> > 
> > If we displayed a timeout clock here too, users would be more willing
> > to wait.
> It would also be nice to show which process systemd is waiting for,
> together with something like
> 	Press Ctrl+C to abort and continue
> 
> Most important is the possibility to abort the wait and continue,
> because I am sure some peoples I know will just think "What is this
> f. s." and yank the cord anyway.

I like the theory of this, but I am not sure how to implement this
nicely, since it is usually not clear what precisely the unit is that
isn't showing up...

Also, it's security sensitive I think, so it cannot be enabled by
default I think...

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat