On 02/ 3/10 11:12 AM, Sherry Moore wrote: > Garrett, > > It was by your request during PSARC review that "reboot -f dryrun" to > be a project private interface and therefore not to be documented in > the man pages. >
Hmm.. ok. I don't remember rightly why I would have requested that, but I presume I had a reason for it at the time. Perhaps its a good time to revisit that decision, since there seems to be some desire to have the ability to query this. - Garrett > Sherry > > On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 10:32:37AM -0800, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > >> On 02/ 3/10 09:59 AM, Calum Mackay wrote: >> >>> On 03/02/10 17:38, chris kiick wrote: >>> >>>>>>> How do I tell if my system has the "specific capabilities" >>>>>>> required for >>>>>>> fast reboot? Is there a command which can be run, or a >>>>>>> particular line in >>>>>>> prtconf, prtdiag or the like which tells me whether the >>>>>>> system is capable >>>>>>> of fast reboot? >>>>>>> >>>>>> reboot -f dryrun shows whether your system is capable at all. >>>>>> >>>>> Lovely. Is that documented anywhere? I don't see it in the >>>>> man page for >>>>> reboot(1M). Seems like an ideal extension to the text you >>>>> proposed along the >>>>> lines of "To see if your system is capable of fast reboot, >>>>> run reboot -f >>>>> dryrun". >>>>> >>>> dryrun only works on x86. >>>> >>> I don't see it mentioned in reboot(1) on an x86 system either. >>> >> Its "undocumented", and IIRC, was not formally ARC'd as an interface. >> >> - Garrett >> >>> cheers, >>> calum. >>> >