Subject: Re: APM *and* ACPI or is it APM *or* ACPI?
To: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
From: Charles M. Hannum <abuse@spamalicious.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/11/2003 17:25:35
> Um.  This seems like a very poor idea.  So, the user runs "shutdown"
> or "kill 1", putters around single-user for a few minutes, and permanently
> damages his hardware?  No thank you!

While I'm not fully enamored with the idea of using a user-level
program, I have to say that this is quite the strawman.  The kernel
could easily have a failsafe for "maximum cooling" if the user-level
program dies or does not respond.