Re: Introducing a poweroff(8) command

From: John Polstra (jdp_at_polstra.com)
Date: 08/23/04

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    Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 14:22:37 -0700 (PDT)
To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>

    On 23-Aug-2004 John Baldwin wrote:
    > On Saturday 21 August 2004 04:22 pm, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
    >> Add a hard link to reboot(8) called "poweroff" which defaults to the
    >> same behavior as "halt -p". Also fix a related bug while here. When
    >> called as "halt -p" the previous reboot program would not disallow the
    >> use of -d for saving kernel dumps (it would inhibit dumps without the
    >> -p option though).
    >>
    >> Index: Makefile
    [...]
    > I think this is buggy in that p will point to the / character since you don't
    > modify it in the second case. I.e. what you wrote is basically this:
    >
    > p = rindex(*argv, '/');
    > if (p != NULL)
    > p + 1; /* does nothing */
    > else
    > *argv; /* also does nothing */
    [...]

    This whole thread seems ridiculous to me. Why can't it be done with a
    simple shell script?

    John
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