Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 10:34:21 +0000 From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> To: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why doesn't Turn Off The Computer turn off the computer? Message-ID: <4421282D.3000809@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <20060321180656.T49653@tripel.monochrome.org> References: <20060321123243.70610.qmail@web30302.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20060321180656.T49653@tripel.monochrome.org>
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Chris Hill wrote: > On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Yance Kowara wrote: > >> In Linux, shutdown -h now will power off the machine. > > > *That* makes no sense to me, and I would find it to be unexpected > behavior... but I guess it's a matter of what you're used to. Where FreeBSD aims for a Principle of Least Astonishment (POLA) my experience of Linux is that they have no such principle, and in some cases (when I'm having a bad day :-)) even a Principle of Greatest Astonishment. Shutdown -h has halted machines since forever (or course, in them days you *couldn't* power the machine off). Enough rambling, --Alex
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