execve inside irq?

[Steven Scholz]

I wrote:
>
> 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.

Of course I meant SIGUSR2. (Busybox') init powers down then...


Steven


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