svn commit: r340478 - head/share/man/man7

Rodney W. Grimes freebsd at pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net
Fri Nov 16 18:04:08 UTC 2018


> On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 7:29 AM Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> >   A few years ago jilles@ proposed changing reboot's default to signalling
> >   init (preserving reboot -q which just invokes the reboot system call),
> > but
> >   this was not accepted. Perhaps this can be tried again for 13.0.
> >
> 
> I didn't like it at the time, however I was wrong. Much of my reasoning for
> doing it has become muted as well since then, and the need to do it has
> become more amplified as more rc scripts have grown shutdown
> functionality...
> 
> I think if we make what's now reboot 'fastreboot' or 'reboot -q' (both of
> which are historic replacements), we can make 'reboot' what's now 'shutdown
> -r now'.

I support this position.
-- 
Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org


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