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Date:      Mon, 07 Aug 2006 01:42:55 -0600
From:      Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
To:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Bruce M Simpson <bms@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/reboot reboot.c
Message-ID:  <44D6EEFF.5080300@samsco.org>
In-Reply-To: <864pwp6q4f.fsf@xps.des.no>
References:  <200608021305.k72D5c9R055142@repoman.freebsd.org>	<86oduxx2a5.fsf@xps.des.no> <200608071155.12122.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <864pwp6q4f.fsf@xps.des.no>

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Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> writes:
> 
>>On Monday 07 August 2006 01:52, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
>>
>>>Wouldn't it be more logical to have init(8) perform the reboot(2)
>>>call upon receiving a signal from reboot(8)?
>>
>>You wouldn't be able to reboot the system in single user mode then
>>would you?
> 
> 
> Why not?  FreeBSD is not Linux - it always runs init, even in
> single-user mode.
> 
> DES

sysinstall is an example of an init-like program that isn't init.  There
are also many good uses for a custom init-like program for embedded
systems.  Not all the world is multi-user, and flexibility is very
important.  If you want to declare a new requirement that all init-like
programs are now responsible for managing the reboot(2) call themselves,
that's fine, but it'll need more documentation and effort than just a
passing commit to src/sbin/init.

Scott




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