On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 10:26 AM, The Wanderer <wande...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > On 08/10/2014 10:15 AM, Tom H wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 9:29 AM, The Wanderer <wande...@fastmail.fm> >> wrote: >>> On 08/10/2014 09:26 AM, Tom H wrote: >>>> >>>> halt/poweroff/reboot have called shutdown at least since >>>> 6/squeeze. >>> >>> Ah, so that may be a Debian-specific behavior, rather than an >>> upstream one? >>> >>> That might explain the discrepancy, if so. >>> >>> If not, perhaps the environment in question is simply using older >>> versions of those tools, which do not yet invoke 'shutdown'... >> >> It's in the BSDs that halt&co don't call shutdown. It's been called >> in sysvinit for a long time. > > It's entirely possible that that environment in question does not use > sysvinit even in part, so it's not entirely impossible that it's > actually using halt etc. from a non-sysvinit source. I'll have to > investigate if I decide it's worth the bother to find out. > > Thanks for the information; this is a potentially interesting puzzle > where I didn't even realize one might exist.
You're welcome. FTR, even sysvinit 2.57 in pre-buzz had the note about this being a version where using halt&co is OK. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=swhc9c5q35dmp8uzpu2iw774xl6xmtdjkf2jzkuc+9...@mail.gmail.com
