[arch-general] [PATCH 21/48] Both rc.single and rc.shutdown use the same code to kill everything.

[Kurt J. Bosch]

2010-09-01 17:29, Victor Lowther:
>
> Bash globbing cannot handle it, but bash knows how to test file
> timestamps, so we could code something up that handles killing the
> daemons in reverse timestamp order if we had to. However, there is no
> reason to think that the order is significant for daemons not in
> $DAEMONS.  If there are any dependencies that this code does not
> handle gracefully, the offending daemons will be killed when we kill
> -15 and then kill -9 the rest of the processes.  If a daemon does not
> handle SIGTERM gracefully because of dependency issues, it has other,
> more significant problems.
>
I really don't know if this 'feature' is actually still wanted or 
needed, but I feel it should be dropped in a separate commit if ever. :)