Re: Introducing a poweroff(8) command

From: Cyrille Lefevre (clefevre-lists_at_9online.fr)
Date: 08/22/04

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    To: "Brian Somers" <brian@Awfulhak.org>, "Giorgos Keramidas" <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 23:52:32 +0200

    "Brian Somers" <brian@Awfulhak.org> wrote:
    > On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 23:22:52 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas
    <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
    > > On 2004-08-21 22:16, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> wrote:
    > > > Hi guys,
    > > >
    > > > In response to PR misc/70476 about `halt -p' I wrote a simple patch to
    > > > introduce a "poweroff" command that will default to "halt -p" behavior
    > > > and inhibit the need for changing the default behavior of halt(8).
    > > >
    > > > o Does this look ok to you all?
    > > >
    > > > o Should I suggest using it as a workaround of the behavior
    > > > described in the PR?
    > >
    > > It would be nice if I also included the patch :-?
    >
    > IMHO poweroff should behave like ``shutdown -p now'' rather than ``halt -p''.

    no, poweroff usually behaves as "halt -p", not "shutdown -p".
    see Solaris and NetBSD for details.

    Cyrille Lefevre. 

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