[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#258420: Proposal for fixing

[Thomas Hood]

> Upon shutdown, the current initscripts first calls sendsigs to TERM and KILL
> all processes, and after that it tries to unmount the NFS-Filesystems. This
> fails, because the portmapper was already killed (at least that was it looks
> like on my system). 


Proposal: modify killall5 to exclude certain processes (either by name or by
number -- details to be worked out later) named with an "-x" option, then
use this option in the sendsigs initscript.

Question: _Exactly_ which processes should be saved from being killed in order
to allow NFS filesystems to be unmounted cleanly?  Just the /sbin/portmap, or
others as well?
-- 
Thomas Hood