[Simh] Shutdown of Vax from Linux shutdown script

[Toby Thain]

On 5-Feb-07, at 6:44 PM, David Holland wrote:

> How would VMS handle the sudden clock jump that will happen when  
> the virtual image gets reloaded?
>
> I've not had particularly good luck w/ most Unix OS's/Applications  
> dealing w/ that particular issue.....


Is there a safe way of resetting the system clock with a system call  
(etc)?
You could start the emulator with the old clock... then fake a clock  
reset?

Just a random thought.
--T

>
> David
>
>
> On 2/5/07, Odilon Mader <lists at luminainfo.com.br> wrote:
> At 16:19 05/02/07, Rick Caldwell wrote:
> >Did anybody ever come up with a way to send a shutdown command to the
> >Vax emulator when shutting down their Linux system?
>
> I'd like to give my .02
>
> It would be very useful, particularly for those non-Unix-like
> systems. I think it could be done in the signal handling routine in
> scp.c. The emulator could dump memory and exit upon receiving, for
> example, SIGHUP. It seems to me that it would be faster and more
> reliable than having the underlying OS shut down.
>
> Odilon
>
>
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