cvs commit: src/sbin/reboot reboot.c

Daniel O'Connor doconnor at gsoft.com.au
Mon Aug 7 06:14:29 UTC 2006


On Monday 07 August 2006 15:31, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor at gsoft.com.au> writes:
> > On Monday 07 August 2006 01:52, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> > > Wouldn't it be more logical to have init(8) perform the reboot(2)
> > > call upon receiving a signal from reboot(8)?
> >
> > You wouldn't be able to reboot the system in single user mode then
> > would you?
>
> Why not?  FreeBSD is not Linux - it always runs init, even in
> single-user mode.

News to me, I've never looked that hard :)

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