Why would the first and only method of asking the system to reboot be to shoot the system in the head?
Because the lazy-ass dev didn’t want to program in contingencies for using alternate methods, so he just used the one method that’s guaranteed to work.
I was installing something decades ago that set the default runlevel to 6 and inserted itself as a runlevel 6 service. It would reboot until it had finished the changes it wanted to make and then set the runlevel back. Weirdest trash software. The service stayed to “apply updates on reboot”
Had the pleasure of installing some HPE proprietary crap on RHEL the other day.
After the cli installer ran it printed: rebooting now.
It then killed PID 1 to force the reboot …
We were flabbergasted. Why would the first and only method of asking the system to reboot be to shoot the system in the head?
Because the lazy-ass dev didn’t want to program in contingencies for using alternate methods, so he just used the one method that’s guaranteed to work.
I was installing something decades ago that set the default runlevel to 6 and inserted itself as a runlevel 6 service. It would reboot until it had finished the changes it wanted to make and then set the runlevel back. Weirdest trash software. The service stayed to “apply updates on reboot”
I’m glad I don’t have to work there anymore.