[Splashy-devel] handling signals

[Luis M]

On 3/20/06, Pat Suwalski <pats at xandros.com> wrote:
> Luis M wrote:
> > If that's possible that's worthy of investigation. That would
> > definitely solve the problem without having to bother to handle HUP or
> > relaunching splashy.
>
> The other possibility is to have splashy read from a "new" fifo in the
> mounted/pivoted root system when it gets a signal. Then it would not
> have to be restarted and could receive proper fifo commands.

For as long as the filesystem is not read-only. I don't see the point
of the kernel not allowing FIFO files to be written when on a
read-only filesystem. There should be a way around this. A fifo is ram
to begin with. Perhaps there is a write() call just for that purpose?

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