[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#587923: sysvinit: manpage improvements and missing documentation

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

Package: sysvinit
Version: 2.88dsf-10
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch


Hi.

1) The attached patch improves a few things on the halt(8) manpage IMHO.
(Moving the implication notice to the actually affected option)

2) I guess documentation should be added on whether -i and -h take effect
if rebooting and not halt/poweroff.


Other questions:
1) How can writing /var/log/wtmp ever work? AFAIK umountroot happens before
halt and in that we have remount,ro?

2) Is that:
 Right  now  this is only implemented for IDE drives. A side
       effect of putting the drive in stand-by mode is that the write cache on
       the disk is flushed. This is important for IDE drives, since the kernel
       doesn't flush the write cache itself before power-off.

still valid? Have you read what Milan Broz commented on flushing recently?


Cheers,
Chris