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From: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@suse.de>
Subject: Re: execve() in reboot.c ?
Date: 26 Jul 2005 14:55:23 +0200
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Philip R Auld <pauld@egenera.com> writes:

> > I kind of like this approach, but it does mean that we can't distinguish
> > between a poweroff and a reboot. Do we care?
> 
> yes, I think there's a difference... If I halt a guest I don't expect
> it to reboot.

Especially if you want to reboot the (physical) machine with something
like "xm shutdown -a -w && reboot" in domain0 ...

  Gerd

-- 
panic("it works"); /* avoid being flooded with debug messages */