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From: Vincent Hanquez <vincent.hanquez@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: execve() in reboot.c ?
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 20:31:40 +0200
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On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 03:26:34AM +0900, aq wrote:
> i dont see why we try to call userspace comand first, then fail thru
> to sys_reboot(). why just call sys_reboot()?

because sys_reboot doesn't do:

- a clean shutdown of all processes of the machines.
- unmount partitions.
- sync data to disk.
- problably some more reasons.

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Vincent Hanquez