Subject: Re: reboot vs shutdown -r
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: David Holland <dholland+netbsd@eecs.harvard.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 02/14/2006 17:40:41
> > I wondered if reboot could be made "RAID safe" ?
>
> Linux version of reboot does it. Reboot detects if it was called during a
> normal reboot sequence. If it was not, it executes shutdown -r.
>
> This is IMHO an ugly workaround. Maybe reboot and halt could be moved to
> /libexec (out of the $PATH) so that people have to learn to use shutdown?
Isn't the right answer to have reboot instead of shutdown run
/etc/rc.shutdown?
The traditional analogous behavior is posting SIGTERM to everything,
and that's done by reboot. If you don't want it, that's what reboot -q
is for...
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- David A. Holland / dholland@eecs.harvard.edu