execve inside irq?

[Steven Scholz]

Wojciech Kromer schrieb:
>
> anyone knows ho to call execve inside irq
>
> i just want to execve("/sbin/poweroff"....) in case of pressing power
> button on my board

Since I did not find a better solution yet I start a new kernel thread
that takes care of poweroff when getting the power button interrupt.
In this new thread I then send a SIGUSR1 to init, but you could
probably call "execve("/sbin/poweroff"....) " as well.

Steven


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