Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:05:32 +0200 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Shutdown cooloff feature Message-ID: <h9st65$eni$1@ger.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0909291245080.91454@fledge.watson.org> References: <4AC141B0.4090705@delphij.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0909291245080.91454@fledge.watson.org>
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Robert Watson wrote: > > On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, Xin LI wrote: > >> I'm not sure if anyone would find this useful: > > Along similar lines, if we're looking at frequent admin errors: I've > noticed an increasing number of people using "reboot" rather than > "shutdown -r NOW" on the basis that on Linux (and perhaps other > systems), reboot gives a clean application shutdown. I wonder if we > should be making a similar change -- a lot of people may be risky data > corruption/loss due to unclean application shutdown as a result of that > misunderstanding. There is difference between reboot and shutdown -r now??? Reading the man pages, it doesn't look so. What is the difference? Does shutdown -r call rc.d scripts with "stop"?
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