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Date:      Thu, 22 Mar 2001 16:20:33 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/reboot reboot.c
Message-ID:  <200103222120.QAA34592@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20010323080736.A8221@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>
References:  <200103210507.f2L57rs76820@aslan.scsiguy.com> <200103212023.aa36148@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> <20010323080736.A8221@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>

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<<On Fri, 23 Mar 2001 08:07:36 +1100, Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> said:

> why not move it into a common process.  Why can't reboot(8) just
> ask init(8) to massacre all the processes and reboot?

That would defeat the purpose of having a separate reboot(8).  (How
else are you going to reboot your system when init is hosed?)

-GAWollman


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