Greetings, Frank Fesevur! >> I thought about it for a while myself before posting but I concluded your >> choice was a good one: the usefulness of -h for hibernate probably >> outweighed the benefits of retaining compatibility with a more traditional >> (BSD) Unix shutdown. I checked to see if POSIX had anything specified but >> it's not concerned with the shutdown command.
> It seems there is not such thing as a *general* shutdown command. > "Every" distribution has its own. Just picked three: > http://linuxmanpages.net/manpages/fedora18/man8/shutdown.8.html > http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man8/shutdown.8.html > http://manpages.debian.net/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=shutdown&apropos=0&sektion=8&manpath=Debian+6.0+squeeze&format=html&locale=en > Although they all agree on -r -h -H -P -k and -c. Also noticed that > the Fedora shutdown doesn't require the time option. It defaults to 1 > minute. >> Having thought about it bit more, I'd like to suggest an upper case -H as >> the option for hibernate. > This would still conflict with the -H of the ones above, but I have no > problem with it. Anyone against changing hibernate to -H? If anyone can explain the difference between "halt" and "power off" in the terms of Linux 'shutdown' man page, I would probably vote for one of the choices. Especially since the Debian (and Ubuntu) man page wording on -h confuse me. I can't understand, how a choice would be "left up to the system". -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@freemail.ru) 24.03.2013, <05:08> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
