From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 14 19:52:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA04090 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 19:52:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from roma.coe.ufrj.br (roma.coe.ufrj.br [146.164.53.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA04056; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 19:52:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonny@jonny.eng.br) Received: (from jonny@localhost) by roma.coe.ufrj.br (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA09880; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 01:47:19 -0200 (EDT) (envelope-from jonny) From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis Message-Id: <199812150347.BAA09880@roma.coe.ufrj.br> Subject: Re: HEADS UP : laptop power-down change In-Reply-To: <199812112131.NAA05568@pox.remarque.org> from Rob Robertson at "Dec 11, 98 01:31:23 pm" To: rob@remarque.org (Rob Robertson) Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 01:47:19 -0200 (EDT) Cc: imp@village.org, phk@critter.freebsd.dk, archie@whistle.com, mike@smith.net.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG #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 -- Joao Carlos Mendes Luis M.Sc. Student jonny@jonny.eng.br Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro "This .sig is not meant to be politically correct." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message