Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2016 16:08:52 +0200 From: Bertram Scharpf <lists@bertram-scharpf.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stupid question regarding reboot and poweroff Message-ID: <20160918140852.GA65211@becker.bs.l> In-Reply-To: <20160918131403.49fd438e@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <20160918090323.GA69189@e733> <20160918102949.GA90101@becker.bs.l> <20160918131403.49fd438e@gumby.homeunix.com>
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On Sunday, 18. Sep 2016, 13:14:03 +0100, RW via freebsd-questions wrote: > On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 12:29:49 +0200 > Bertram Scharpf wrote: > > > On Sunday, 18. Sep 2016, 12:03:23 +0300, Aleksander Alekseev wrote: > > > Is there any difference between executing `poweroff` and `shutdown > > > -p now` or executing `reboot` and `shutdown -r now` ? > > > > `poweroff' is a hard link to `shutdown'. > > In general you can't infer from that that they behave the same. It's > not uncommon that similar utilities are implemented in the same binary, > and then behave differently according to how they are invoked, e.g. > less and more. As can be seen in /usr/src/sbin/shutdown/shutdown.c, line 130. Bertram -- Bertram Scharpf Stuttgart, Deutschland/Germany http://www.bertram-scharpf.de
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