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Date:      Sat, 12 Dec 1998 10:41:02 -0500
From:      Benjamin Greenwald <beng@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP : laptop power-down change 
Message-ID:  <199812121541.KAA02595@miris.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 11 Dec 1998 10:39:19 MST." <199812111739.KAA03402@harmony.village.org> 

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Might I suggest that if you are so desperate for the old semantics:

alias halt='/sbin/halt -p'

-Ben


> In message <199812110803.AAA00533@dingo.cdrom.com> Mike Smith writes:
> : > : Why the change?  The current behavior seems right to me.
> : Yes.  There is a perfectly good set of run-time options which allow you 
> : to determine at any time whether you want to power-off or halt; having 
> : a kernel option override this would be stupid.
> 
> But the i386 code doesn't *HAVE* a rom monitor to drop back into...
> We just go into a loop that says press any key to reboot.  Not exactly
> useful.  The apm code is i386 specific, by definition.
> 
> There are many places where we have kernel options that override
> stuff, I fail to see how this is different.  At the very least I'd
> like to make it a sysctl so I can set it in my boot scripts.
> 
> Warner
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