-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 08/10/2014 10:15 AM, Tom H wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 9:29 AM, The Wanderer <wande...@fastmail.fm> > wrote: > >> On 08/10/2014 09:26 AM, Tom H wrote: >>> halt/poweroff/reboot have called shutdown at least since >>> 6/squeeze. >> >> Ah, so that may be a Debian-specific behavior, rather than an >> upstream one? >> >> That might explain the discrepancy, if so. >> >> If not, perhaps the environment in question is simply using older >> versions of those tools, which do not yet invoke 'shutdown'... > > It's in the BSDs that halt&co don't call shutdown. It's been called > in sysvinit for a long time. It's entirely possible that that environment in question does not use sysvinit even in part, so it's not entirely impossible that it's actually using halt etc. from a non-sysvinit source. I'll have to investigate if I decide it's worth the bother to find out. Thanks for the information; this is a potentially interesting puzzle where I didn't even realize one might exist. - -- The Wanderer Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. A government exists to serve its citizens, not to control them. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJT54EyAAoJEASpNY00KDJrrXAP/3lRDe+1H+8/FudR/U9jmXRt rQzx4LqCW6sVpFGyxe9AvCQj1OFjVPaK/E0ZQR95BUY3UNuOeLIf8WOwnriKl60F ZsT03gdgxSL1qrR3t6ww9nJGxZkhlK6enyugyIkLjF6jHuriEmdZguA4sCc8BP2T cNS/xathb4EXXoY1eZvidmle+NCzRw7we3sM0ko9LFVLZIk9FjQ/ZLjSh3tEaJaz wWaY7Rj3tkls31GJPS9sAUfJVSYRYGifLOXr8PUJkKiKgp1uhgAVO/oGiTAUcqrC MUVeVaNzIbTUZqIacB3aWoEdYirxcAUmJhXCMw9tjr7kfJzmF1y6jUZ7SGPpMZVK +Mt1sscKE2WfQXSgFimxgdcJiPU/1nQjC8E7RauimWTI5Y2xjyqiWV+uiW+Yex31 vKRi46auSMGJVdq1Dzs2rSDDlXvz8fODT2FRfI8EBMy4c0OXZ3Ycu1/aVhpZCTwS Ze7A9o+5O8FZl/LiK83d/pbGb3OFySjDsf/MjjbbbBG59GnULxLbtR/KSwiPpnCa KzgF26cJALtRvRLo+HrAylnCs286+PWov0/7p6EpJ2dR9aEwRLYCfbg642h8IZLy jMWBs2uHlxGjp2ZAwtAiOHOvpaUZcTUch5MGOaoi406neSusvAVm0dWF2mfJVpll QJjf+OUmbgLQO4yEU8Y1 =aB7/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53e78132.7040...@fastmail.fm
