Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 23:52:32 +0200 From: "Cyrille Lefevre" <clefevre-lists@9online.fr> To: "Brian Somers" <brian@Awfulhak.org>, "Giorgos Keramidas" <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Introducing a poweroff(8) command Message-ID: <071a01c48892$5483c0e0$7890a8c0@gits.invalid> References: <20040821191659.GA94336@gothmog.gr><20040821202252.GB94336@gothmog.gr> <20040821235048.6244270a@dev.lan.Awfulhak.org>
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"Brian Somers" <brian@Awfulhak.org> wrote: > On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 23:22:52 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote: > > On 2004-08-21 22:16, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > Hi guys, > > > > > > In response to PR misc/70476 about `halt -p' I wrote a simple patch to > > > introduce a "poweroff" command that will default to "halt -p" behavior > > > and inhibit the need for changing the default behavior of halt(8). > > > > > > o Does this look ok to you all? > > > > > > o Should I suggest using it as a workaround of the behavior > > > described in the PR? > > > > It would be nice if I also included the patch :-? > > IMHO poweroff should behave like ``shutdown -p now'' rather than ``halt -p''. no, poweroff usually behaves as "halt -p", not "shutdown -p". see Solaris and NetBSD for details. Cyrille Lefevre. -- home: mailto:cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net
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