[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#476698: Bug#476698: killall5 should not kill fuse filesystems

[Goswin von Brederlow]

Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry.com> writes:

> [Goswin von Brederlow]
>> we use fuse-unionfs for /etc and /usr on a pool of systems. When
>> rebooting killall5 will kill all processes execpt init and itself
>> causing the fuse filesystems to be killed without umount. In our
>> case the next access to /etc or /usr will block because there will
>> be no process left to service the request.
>
> Why does it not work to use the omitpid feature of sendsigs?  It was
> written for cases like this.

For one thing because there is no such thing as an "omitpid feature"
in killall5. Only pidof has it.