Chris Hill wrote:
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Yance Kowara wrote:
In Linux, shutdown -h now will power off the machine.
*That* makes no sense to me, and I would find it to be unexpected
behavior... but I guess it's a matter of what you're used to.
Where FreeBSD aims for a Principle of Least Astonishment (POLA) my
experience of Linux is that they have no such principle, and in some
cases (when I'm having a bad day :-)) even a Principle of Greatest
Astonishment.
Shutdown -h has halted machines since forever (or course, in them days
you *couldn't* power the machine off).
Enough rambling,
--Alex
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