Re: what is the difference between shutdown command and writing to /sys/power/state

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Wednesday, 19 September 2007 23:37, Agarwal, Lomesh wrote:
> Can you tell me the differences?
> Also what do you mean by - depending also on what you mean by 'now'? I

Please tell me what kernel version you're referring to.

> gave now as a time parameter to shutdown command. How can it be
> interpreted in a different way?

Sorry, I have misunderstood your post (the "now" doesn't look as a part of the
command).

Greetings,
Rafael


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki [mailto:rjw@xxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 2:35 PM
> To: Agarwal, Lomesh
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: what is the difference between shutdown command and writing
> to /sys/power/state
> 
> On Wednesday, 19 September 2007 20:50, Agarwal, Lomesh wrote:
> > Does linux handles writing "disk" to /sys/power/state and shutdown -P
> > now differently (except writing to disk part)?
> 
> Yes, it does (depending also on what you mean by 'now').
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