> 2. The user runs /sbin/halt without the "-p" flag. This runs > /sbin/shutdown -h. INIT_HALT is not set. The /etc/init.d/halt script > checks /etc/defaults/halt to see whether it should poweroff or simply > stop.
Yes, but Steve says that /sbin/halt without the "-p" flag should definitely call /sbin/shutdown -h -H and always halt without poweroff regardless of /etc/default/halt, which is in contradiction with what the new version does as you just explained. -- Pierre Ynard