Differential D16843
development(7): Replace "reboot" with "shutdown -r now" Authored by 0mp on Aug 22 2018, 2:01 PM. Tags None Referenced Files
Details Commit message: We generally document shutdown(8) instead of reboot(8) as it's better for interactive use. Reported by: eadler Do you have any comments on what should be the reason in the commit message? I've got a feeling that the current message is not very informative. Note: I'll bump Dd before committing.
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In modern FreeBSD is matterns a lot less, its mostly just convention. One minor thing is that shutdown produces a global message, while reboot does not. I believe that historically, some versions of reboot did not do appropriate safe shutdown checks and just rebooted. Its also just consistency: for example https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/boot-shutdown.html documents shutdown Comment Actions There is actually another important difference between reboot and shutdown -r now: reboot does not run /etc/rc.shutdown. This is because reboot has its own shutdown procedure and does not signal init like init 6 and shutdown -r now do (except in the case of rerooting via reboot -r). A few years ago I 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. Don't forget to update .Dd. |