In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Thomas Quinot wri
tes:
Currently, when reboot is invoked with the '-p' command line flag
(powerdown), it performs a shutdown with RB_HALT|RB_POWEROFF.
In some situations, it can be useful to try to perform a poweroff,
but reboot if it fails (e.g. when you are
Thomas Quinot writes:
Currently, when reboot is invoked with the '-p' command line flag
(powerdown), it performs a shutdown with RB_HALT|RB_POWEROFF.
In some situations, it can be useful to try to perform a poweroff,
but reboot if it fails (e.g. when you are shutting down the system
as
be more like support for a combination like:
shutdown -r -p now
(which is currently unsupported because we have assigned one signal
that says init 'shutdown -r' and another for 'shutdown -p', but that's
not the issue here.)
More precisely, right now if you do
reboot -p
then you have
Currently, when reboot is invoked with the '-p' command line flag
(powerdown), it performs a shutdown with RB_HALT|RB_POWEROFF.
In some situations, it can be useful to try to perform a poweroff,
but reboot if it fails (e.g. when you are shutting down the system
as a result of a power failure, you
