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Date:      Fri, 16 Nov 2018 10:04:04 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        0mp@freebsd.org, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r340478 - head/share/man/man7
Message-ID:  <201811161804.wAGI44WC047387@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfo-1JETOB0AjaLtN6J=J8FJthiFRCP8s%2Bnu6qWt5K5f9g@mail.gmail.com>

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> On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 7:29 AM Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> >   A few years ago jilles@ proposed changing reboot's default to signalling
> >   init (preserving reboot -q which just invokes the reboot system call),
> > but
> >   this was not accepted. Perhaps this can be tried again for 13.0.
> >
> 
> I didn't like it at the time, however I was wrong. Much of my reasoning for
> doing it has become muted as well since then, and the need to do it has
> become more amplified as more rc scripts have grown shutdown
> functionality...
> 
> I think if we make what's now reboot 'fastreboot' or 'reboot -q' (both of
> which are historic replacements), we can make 'reboot' what's now 'shutdown
> -r now'.

I support this position.
-- 
Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes@freebsd.org



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