[vcf-midatlantic] Museum Report 7/16 & 7/17
Bill Sudbrink
wh.sudbrink at verizon.net
Tue Jul 19 21:10:39 EDT 2016
Dave McGuire wrote:
> On 07/19/2016 08:53 PM, Bill Sudbrink via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
> > Originally, if I recall correctly, it was:
> >
> > sync
> > sync
> > sync
> > halt
> >
> > Yea, later on, all that fancy "shutdown -h" really made the
> > sync's unnecessary.
>
> The syncs were never actually necessary.
Hate to argue with you, but in BSD, "back in the old days" I think "halt"
was "right now", no cleanup, no dirty writes, just a little better than
yanking the cord out of the wall.
Bill S.
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