Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 23:50:48 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Introducing a poweroff(8) command Message-ID: <20040821235048.6244270a@dev.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: <20040821202252.GB94336@gothmog.gr> References: <20040821191659.GA94336@gothmog.gr> <20040821202252.GB94336@gothmog.gr>
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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''.
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Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org> <brian@[uk.]FreeBSD.org>
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