Re: [uml-devel] Trivial Patch - SIGHUP simulates ctrl-alt-del

[Michael R. <mc...@sa...>]

  The problem with 
  mconsole umid cad

is that it fails for:

   1) sysadmins who aren't sure what this stuff is!
      (imagine a user who types "linux", thinking they they should run
      Linux, being unaware that they are... Since it hangs with no root=
      parameter, they user logs off and logs in again... Given what gets
      installed on a typical Linux distro...)

   2) orderly shutdown. 

   3) when I don't know which userid the UML is running as, or
      worse, there are more than one with the same UMID, and the socket
      directory got bashed.

kill -HUP works well.

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