On Wed, 13 Jun 2018 17:29:48 -0300 Jesse Smith <jsm...@resonatingmedia.com> wrote:
> On 06/13/2018 05:01 PM, Matias Fonzo wrote: > > According to init(8): > > > > [..] > > > > ENVIRONMENT > > Init sets the following environment variables for all its children: > > > > RUNLEVEL > > The current system runlevel. > > [..] > > > > Probably there is no need to write/read such file... > > > > While that is true, in this case reboot/halt would not be a direct > child of init. If you have a shell open and run "echo $RUNLEVEL" you > will probably find the variable is not set, unless your shell is a > direct descendant of init. That is why I think having the value > stored in a specific, non-volatile location. > > I'm curious, why shutdown need to determine the runlevel?.
