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Date:      Thu, 22 Mar 2001 20:06:35 -0500
From:      Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net>
To:        Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl>
Cc:        Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>, "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/reboot reboot.c
Message-ID:  <3ABAA19B.6D5EF41B@bellatlantic.net>
References:  <200103210507.f2L57rs76820@aslan.scsiguy.com> <200103212023.aa36148@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> <20010323080736.A8221@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> <20010322222118.A2880@freebie.demon.nl>

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Wilko Bulte wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 08:07:36AM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote:

> > Instead of moving the common functionality into a common library,
> > why not move it into a common process.  Why can't reboot(8) just
> > ask init(8) to massacre all the processes and reboot?  (Or, vice
> > versa, init could spawn reboot(8) to do the same thing).
> 
> Isn't that what a SysV init does?

No, it calls uadmin for actual reboot/shutdown.

-SB

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