Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 23:59:39 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP : laptop power-down change Message-ID: <199812110759.XAA00468@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 10 Dec 1998 21:22:15 MST." <199812110422.VAA65796@harmony.village.org>
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> In message <199812110222.SAA00769@dingo.cdrom.com> Mike Smith writes: > : No. RB_POWEROFF and RB_HALT have very different meanings. The PC > : doesn't have a useful means for getting back to the resident firmware, > : but many other systems do. That's what RB_HALT is meant to do, while > : RB_POWEROFF is meant to power the system down. The two are mutually > : exclusive. > > I know... halt should turn the machine off. halt(8) does a variety of things. In one case, it will turn the machine off. In another, it will return the system to the boot monitor. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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