On Fri, 26 Oct 2018, Ian Jackson wrote: > the current actual behaviour in the manpages. Rather, it would be to > try to write down what the desired behaviour would be, and then > document and implement it.
Indeed. As a user, my current expectation is that “halt” shuts down without poweroff, and “halt -p” shuts down with poweroff. Similarily for “shutdown -h now” vs. “shutdown -h -P now”. Finally, the default for Ctrl-Alt-Del should be reboot, but configurable (I have it set to poweroff on my systems). Most of that is the current existing behaviour… > ISTM that one key principle of that desired behaviour is that the > ultimate stopping behaviour of halt/reboot/poweroff should be the … but reading this surprises me a bit, I thought that’s a given. bye, //mirabilos -- tarent solutions GmbH Rochusstraße 2-4, D-53123 Bonn • http://www.tarent.de/ Tel: +49 228 54881-393 • Fax: +49 228 54881-235 HRB 5168 (AG Bonn) • USt-ID (VAT): DE122264941 Geschäftsführer: Dr. Stefan Barth, Kai Ebenrett, Boris Esser, Alexander Steeg
