Re: New commands (reboot, halt, help)

[Marco Gerards]

chaac <address@hidden> writes:

> Marco Gerards wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Here is a patch to add the commands reboot, halt (i386/pc) and reboot
>> (i386/pc).  The halt and reboot commands for the PPC will follow
>> later.
>> I will commit this patch on Monday, if there are no problems with it.
>
> Just a suggestion, halt is quite unixish way for saying shutdown. So
> would shutdown command be more intuitive to non unix users?

Perhaps.  On GRUB Legacy the command was halt so I just used that.  It
doesn't really matter to me what will be used.  Shutdown sounds to me
like a lot needs to be done before the system will stop.  And halt is
what people are used to.

--
Marco