Bryan Kadzban escribió:
> Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>> If a process is running that was started with the action ONCE and has
>> not terminated (e.g. sulogin), it may be killed also.  This makes
>> your wording incorrect.
> 
> That's right; I must have not realized that when looking through the
> inittab manpage.  For that matter, WAIT, POWERWAIT, POWEROKWAIT, and
> maybe even KBREQUEST might be killed also, if they're still running.
> And possibly even others; hmm.  I think the vast majority of the time
> it'll be only RESPAWNs, but that doesn't make the wording correct.
> 
>> Perhaps the wording should be "Sending processes controlled by
>> inittab ..."
> 
> That sounds good to me.  If we could fit a "directly" in there, that'd
> be even better, though (e.g. "started directly from inittab").  Let's
> see (I've got Thunderbird set up to wrap at 72 characters):
> 
> Sending processes started directly from /etc/inittab the TERM signal...
> 

I think "Sending processes controlled by init the TERM signal..."
is better; as processes started by bootscipts, and bootscripts
themselves are not "controlled" by init.

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