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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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