On 4/8/19 12:38 PM, Dmitry Bogatov wrote: > control: tags -1 +upstream > > [ Please keep attribution ] > > [2019-04-07 11:12] Jesse Smith <jsm...@resonatingmedia.com> >> >> That is what halt means - to stop running the system without powering >> off. > Maybe, but many of us are accustomed that /sbin/halt turns off the computer, > so here comes confusion.
That is certainly true, but I'd like to point out that /sbin/halt only turns off the computer because Debian modifies halt's behaviour. If you run /sbin/halt without Debian's modifications, the traditional action (stop without powering off) occurs. I'd almost consider this a bug since /sbin/halt should be used to stop the system while /sbin/poweroff should be used to, well, turn off the power to the system. >> Halting is often used to run through the shutdown process and leave >> output on the screen for debugging purposes. Or when you want the OS to >> stop, but leave the power on. There is no negative side-effect to using >> the -H option, no loss of data. There isn't any reason to print an extra >> warning. > Okay, what about including this explanation into manpage? I know, Unix > is about sharp tools, but before I started working on sysvinit, I > believed, that "halt == turn-off", so extra explanation, that it is > different things would be nice to user. I'm in favour of this change and can expand on the explanation in the manual page for the next release.
