Re: Introducing a poweroff(8) command

From: Brian Somers (brian_at_Awfulhak.org)
Date: 08/23/04

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To: "Cyrille Lefevre" <clefevre-lists@9online.fr>

    On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 23:52:32 +0200, "Cyrille Lefevre" <clefevre-lists@9online.fr> wrote:
    > "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.

    This does seem to be true, and in fact, Linux's poweroff is also ``halt -p''.
    The unusual thing about linux is that without the -f option,
    halt/reboot/poweroff will call shutdown (this is where I got the assumption
    that ``poweroff'' was equivalent to shutdown)!

    I don't think it's a good idea to encourage users to use shutdown methods
    that don't run the rc.d scripts, but I also don't think we should deviate
    from what others do without good reason!

    So I'll just take my oar back out and apologise for getting it wrong! 

    -- 
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>                        <brian@[uk.]FreeBSD.org>
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