[PATCH] Shutdown cooloff feature

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

"Pegasus Mc Cleaft" <ken at mthelicon.com> writes:
> I suppose in my mind I have always thought of the reboot command as
> being a sledge hammer where "shutdown -r" was the polite version. I
> wouldent want to loose the brute-force power of "reboot".

shutdown -or now is actually nastier than reboot(8) - it doesn't signal
init(8) at all.

OBTW:

     -n      The file system cache is not flushed.  This option should proba‐
             bly not be used.

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