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Robert Watson wrote:
>
> On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, Xin LI wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure if anyone would find this useful:
>
> Along similar lines, if we're looking at frequent admin errors: I've
> noticed an increasing number of people using "reboot" rather than
> "shutdown -r NOW" on the basis that on Linux (and perhaps other
> systems), reboot gives a clean application shutdown. I wonder if we
> should be making a similar change -- a lot of people may be risky data
> corruption/loss due to unclean application shutdown as a result of that
> misunderstanding.

Sorry for a too late note, I'm just catching up, however ..

IIRC Solaris for instance differentiate similarly to FreeBSD between 
shutdown, reboot and others.  So we're not alone. :)  And I've always 
considered it a good thing -- shutdown is clean/correct and higher level 
then reboot & co.

OT: I've noticed that PC-BSD has been shipping for ages with reboot 
instead of shutdown. That is default in KDE and comes from Linux.

M.