On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:12:05 -0600 Richi Plana myfedora@richip.dhs.org wrote:
If we don't necessarily have to "shut down" the service when shutting down, do you mean that services should just do the proper thing when sent the appropriate signal(7)? Like a uniform way of being signalled to shut down? (an analogy would be destructors in OOP)
Many of the services just simply kill the pid. The final part of a system shutdown would take care of that. The added time to run the service script and source all the functions and display words to the screen is just needless overhead.