Bug#488796: Not stopping daemons, where are we?

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Tue, 01 Jul 2008, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mardi 01 juillet 2008 à 11:55 +0100, James Westby a écrit :
> > Given that in runlevels 0 and 6 there is an init script that terminates
> > all running processes it is a waste to run an init script for each
> > process before that. In Ubuntu we remove the scripts that do nothing
> > more than terminate a process, and rely on the final script to clean up
> > the running processes. 
> 
> I don???t think there has been any decision on this topic. I don???t have
> anything against such a move, but I think we need a clear consensus on
> whether this is a good idea.

To put it buntly: it is a per-package choice.  Some daemons benefit from
more time for cleanups, some initscripts do extra cleanup.  While some
don't, and really have no reason to need anything else than the killall5
-TERM will do.

AFAIK, bugs were filled on packages that only simply stop daemons asking for
the maintainers to check if they could forego the stop hook on runlevels 0
and 6.

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  Henrique Holschuh