In my computer usage, I usually need about 5 minutes to gracefully exit all my programs before powering down the computer, and I have a 40 minute UPS. If this is done at all, I'd suggest a configurable amount of time, with a visible countdown, telling the user to get his or her affairs in order, and also a way to cancel the shutdown.
The only reason I see to have the computer automatically power down when signaled by the UPS is that I might not be home, but in that case waiting 5 minutes wouldn't matter. By the way, how would this be handled on a laptop, whose core usage includes unplugged usage? Maybe by monitoring when the battery gets too low? SteveT Steve Litt February 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive On Fri, 14 Feb 2020 15:29:49 +0300 innerspacepilot <innerspacepi...@gmx.com> wrote: > I would suggest it should be a graceful shutdown ( stopping all > daemons, syncing filesystems and stuff ) > > > On 14.02.2020 13:46, Jeff wrote: > > 12.02.2020, 22:54, "Colin Booth" <co...@heliocat.net>: > >> I wasn't trying to be hostile, apologies if it came across that > >> way. As far as I know SIGPWR is a Linux-specific signal so > >> services that are aiming for portability will either need to have > >> special handling for that in the linux case or need to ignore it. > >> Ergo, runit (and all other POSIX-compliant inits) currently have > >> no special handling around SIGPWR as they don't understand what it > >> is. > > what should SIGPWR mean to a Linux init ? > > i would suggest: halt and power down the system ASAP. > > >
