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Date:      Tue, 30 Jan 2024 16:31:55 +0000
From:      Gary Jennejohn <garyj@gmx.de>
To:        David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org, Tomek CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info>
Subject:   Re: 'poweroff' seems to (only) halt as of main-n267841-0b3f9e435f2b
Message-ID:  <20240130173155.45a2bc88@ernst.home>
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On Tue, 30 Jan 2024 08:12:23 -0800
David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 03:49:54PM +0000, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> > ...
> > I use 'shutdown -p now' and it's never failed to power down my compute=
rs.
> > ....
>
> I could say the same about "poweroff", up to the main-n267808-197944948e=
62
> -> main-n267841-0b3f9e435f2b transition.  And I probably wouldn't
> have mentioned anything, except that each of the 3 machines (one
> headless build machine; 2 laptops) I tested exhibited the same change.
>
> Note, too, from src/sbin/shutdown/shutdown.c:
>
>         /*
>          * Test for the special case where the utility is called as
>          * "poweroff", for which it runs 'shutdown -p now'.
>          */
>         if ((p =3D strrchr(argv[0], '/')) =3D=3D NULL)
>                 p =3D argv[0];
>         else
>                 ++p;
>         if (strcmp(p, "poweroff") =3D=3D 0) {
>                 if (getopt(argc, argv, "") !=3D -1)
>                         usage((char *)NULL);
>                 argc -=3D optind;
>                 argv +=3D optind;
>                 if (argc !=3D 0)
>                         usage((char *)NULL);
>                 dopower =3D 1;
>                 offset =3D 0;
>                 (void)time(&shuttime);
>                 goto poweroff;
>
> (So I believe we are referring to the same code paths, whether by
> "shutdown -p now" or "poweroff".)
>

Interesting, I wasn't aware of this.  Reading shutdown(8) I see that
poweroff is equivalent to shutdown -p now.  Thanks!

=2D-
Gary Jennejohn



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