[Bug 243094] reboot problem

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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=243094

--- Comment #6 from Bernhard Berger <bernhard at blberger.de> ---
(In reply to Conrad Meyer from comment #5)

I am a user and use FreeBSD as a server system for a home server. 
What I really liked about FreeBSD was the ports system. Of course, between
ports that are not part of the FreeBSD system, you have to evaluate differently
than programs that are part of the system.
A program that says what it does by name must also do exactly what it says by
name.

reboot >>>> System reboot
shutdown -r now >>> System reboot 

reboot <<< do the same >>> shutdown -r now

at least by all appearances.

I found out by accident that reboot does not execute the script
/etc/rc.shutdown(logs). And therefore not the service vm!  VM's take a long
time to shut down and are then simply shot down and I have always wondered
about VM's being shot AFTER using reboot. Then I always manually stopped all
VM#s before a reboot. Often the system got stuck and had to be rebooted by me
via power off/on with anxious in my heart if everything will start well again. 
And as it looks it is reboot that caused all the trouble.  I never expected
such an error.

But this is a big mistake, because basically "MUST" reboot does the same as
shutdown -r now and this is because that's what the name "reboot" says.

You should not ignore this problem. 

I am very disappointed  

ps: i am now thinking about switching to linux or windows.

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