site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com Hi Guys, I'm trying to initiate a forced shutdown from inside a KEXT, this is to meet certain requirements of a piece of hardware. The only solutions I've found was to pass a signal to a application which then uses APIs not available to KEXTs. Does anyone have a better solutions? I would prefer it to be integrated into a single KEXT For a disorderly shutdown, there's always: 8-) -- Terry _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... On Apr 29, 2010, at 7:51 PM, Andrew James wrote: You can not do this. launchd is responsible for the orderly shutdown of they system. panic("I can't shut down the system from a KEXT, so I am calling panic instead"); This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com