Does polling stop acpid working?

[Johannes Christian]

what about the acpi daemon? is it running well or not?

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Timothy Murphy wrote:
> My ThinkPad (T20) does not shutdown properly.
> I'm told that this is because I am polling the temperature
> (with cpuinfo), and also the battery.
>
> Actually, I would rather have the battery and temperature info
> than shutdown properly, so I regard it as a price I have to pay.
> (It does not seem to have any bad consequences,
> since the hard disk does stop.)
>
> But is there any way round this?
> Has it been notified as a bug, and if so of what?
> (I couldn't find it after a brief search.)
>
>   


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