Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 21:06:42 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Coleman Kane <cokane@FreeBSD.org>, Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>, Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/reboot reboot.c Message-ID: <200103262006.f2QK6gl09125@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> of "Mon, 26 Mar 2001 12:58:23 CDT." <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010326125637.74228F-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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> On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Coleman Kane wrote: > > > I am in agreement with Kris and Garrett on this one. I too have seen > > Linux init hold up the system until it is powered off. Typically, this > > is because of my own stupidity, but it is nice to be able to seperately > > down the box gracefully. > > However, what you could imagine is a scenario where: (a) reboot(8) and > halt(8) signal init(8) to perform sane system shutdown by default, but (b) > have a new flag that specifies that rather than taking down the system via > the supported shutdown sequence, to directly kill system processes and > request the kernel halt the system. This would distinguish the sane and > orderly shutdown of init from the "it's not working" behavior of reboot > and halt, while combining code paths in the common ("it is working") case. I've always considered shutdown(8) to be the way of shutting a system down in an orderly fasion and halt(8) & reboot(8) as being the way to ``just do it and do it now''. > Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project > robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services -- Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org> <brian@[uk.]FreeBSD.org> <http://www.Awfulhak.org> <brian@[uk.]OpenBSD.org> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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