Re: Updating reboot's default

On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 9:17 AM Rodney W. Grimes
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > 15 or 20 years ago, we talked about changing the default for reboot from
> > 'right now' to being safe shutdown. There were arguments made against it
> > due to tiny appliances and such.
> >
> > Time has past, and this oddity has persisted. It's time to revisit that
> > decision.
> >
> > I'd propose that we keep 'fastboot' and 'fasthalt' having the immediate
> > behavior. However, the 'reboot' command will switch from '-q' behavior to
> > '-r' behavior.
> >
> > I'll update the man page, etc to reflect these new defaults. Most of the
> > systems I've been on in the last 10-15 years have had some flavor of 'alias
> > reboot reboot -r' in their login scripts and/or made shell scripts that did
> > this. This will match what everybody else is doing, and will likely result
> > in less astonishment rather than more, even though it changes a
> > long-standing default behavior.
> >
> > Comments?
> >
> > Warner
>
> That isnt a reboot any more, that is a re-root, and I thought
> that re-root requires certain other things to be in place for it
> to work correctly, or perhaps I am mis-remebering that.  Also doesnt
> this preserve a large amount of prior state?
>

Note a later correction -- he meant "shutdown -r", rather than re-root.