Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 21:06:42 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Coleman Kane <cokane@FreeBSD.org>, Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>, Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/reboot reboot.c Message-ID: <200103262006.f2QK6gl09125@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> of "Mon, 26 Mar 2001 12:58:23 CDT." <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010326125637.74228F-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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> On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Coleman Kane wrote:
>
> > I am in agreement with Kris and Garrett on this one. I too have seen
> > Linux init hold up the system until it is powered off. Typically, this
> > is because of my own stupidity, but it is nice to be able to seperately
> > down the box gracefully.
>
> However, what you could imagine is a scenario where: (a) reboot(8) and
> halt(8) signal init(8) to perform sane system shutdown by default, but (b)
> have a new flag that specifies that rather than taking down the system via
> the supported shutdown sequence, to directly kill system processes and
> request the kernel halt the system. This would distinguish the sane and
> orderly shutdown of init from the "it's not working" behavior of reboot
> and halt, while combining code paths in the common ("it is working") case.
I've always considered shutdown(8) to be the way of shutting a system
down in an orderly fasion and halt(8) & reboot(8) as being the way to
``just do it and do it now''.
> Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project
> robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services
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