Re: Should reboot(8) be modified so that it can become the recommended way to reboot a system?

On Sun, 9 Feb 2025 17:18:11 +0100
Daniel Tameling <tamelingdaniel@gmail.com> wrote:

> (Warner suggested I should move the discussion to this mailing list.)
> 
> Right now reboot(8) and halt(8) don't execute rc.shutdown scripts. Thus,
> both generally shouldn't be used to initiate a reboot/halt and, instead, one
> usually wants to use the shutdown command. The problem is that people
> regularly still use reboot and are then surprised that their scripts aren't
> executed. Part of the problem is that reboot indeed reboots the system, so
> it is hard to discover that you are using the wrong command. This is also
> not a documentation issue: official guides all use shutdown and the reboot
> man page is quite explicit that you probably want to use shutdown instead.
> People just see the name "reboot" and use it without consulting the docs. To

No, non-reading docs is no excuse to break things for other people. What is
possible to do is add a sleep of perhaps 1 sec with big

"WARNING: this will NOW execute stop scripts, use shutdown(8) for that"

so those could be trained to read.

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WBR, @nuclight