In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thomas Quinot wri tes: >Currently, when reboot is invoked with the '-p' command line flag >(powerdown), it performs a shutdown with RB_HALT|RB_POWEROFF. >In some situations, it can be useful to try to perform a poweroff, >but reboot if it fails (e.g. when you are shutting down the system >as a result of a power failure, you want the system to reboot, >*not* stay down, if power was restored after the start of the shutdown >procedure). It would be nice if reboot was changed to pass only >RB_POWEROFF (without RB_HALT) when invoked with '-p'. Of course halt(8) >whould be unaffected and still pass RB_HALT|RB_POWEROFF when invoked >as halt -p. > >What do others think of this change:
Sounds reasonable. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
