dangerous situation with shutdown process

[David Magda]

On Jul 16, 2005, at 11:03, Bill Vermillion wrote:

> Actually I saw that documented a very very long time ago in
> an Intel Unix manual.

It's present in more recent documentation. :)

     The sync utility can be called to ensure that all disk writes have 
been
      completed before the processor is halted in a way not suitably 
done by
      reboot(8) or halt(8).

     http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sync&sektion=8