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Date:      Tue, 15 Dec 1998 01:47:19 -0200 (EDT)
From:      Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@jonny.eng.br>
To:        rob@remarque.org (Rob Robertson)
Cc:        imp@village.org, phk@critter.freebsd.dk, archie@whistle.com, mike@smith.net.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP : laptop power-down change
Message-ID:  <199812150347.BAA09880@roma.coe.ufrj.br>
In-Reply-To: <199812112131.NAA05568@pox.remarque.org> from Rob Robertson at "Dec 11, 98 01:31:23 pm"

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#define quoting(Rob Robertson)
//     having halt and halt -p map to the same thing on i386 seems
//     reasonable to me. 
// 
// ok, so how do you halt the processor without turning off the machine?
// 
// create another command or option if you want to power off the
// machine.

Yes...  What about Solaris' poweroff ?  Lets let everybody happy.

It could be a hard link to halt, of course.  Oh, maybe shutdown(8)
should be modified to pass some flags to halt(8), or at least to
support poweroff mode.

					Jonny

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Joao Carlos Mendes Luis            M.Sc. Student
jonny@jonny.eng.br                 Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
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