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Date:      Mon, 30 Dec 1996 19:28:36 -0800 (PST)
From:      Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
To:        Sean Batson <seanb012@sunbeach.net>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Shutdown tip
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.94.961230192730.29174D-100000@misery.sdf.com>
In-Reply-To: <32C87FC1.41C67EA6@sunbeach.net>

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On Mon, 30 Dec 1996, Sean Batson wrote:

> The next time you guys are about to shutdown try this:
> 
> shutdown -h now;exit
> 
> the above command should be done once all of the users
> are logged off. The end results would always be this:
> 
> syncing ...disk
> press anykey to reboot.
> no buffers to rewrite to the filesystem.
> 
> Just do an ordernary shutdown -h now, you'll get the
> usual syncing ..3 4 disk ,...
> 
> How if someone where modify the code for the shutdown
> command to do a root user logout then fork or spawn
> the rest of the code for the shutdown thus avoiding
> the site of the buffer related numbers each time on 
> a shutdown.
> 
> 
> Sean Batson.

  What difference does it make?

  You will see buffers written to disk if some other process was active
also.

Tom




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