RE: Clear reboot?

David B. Rees (dbr@spoke.nols.com)
Tue, 11 May 1999 20:20:13 -0700 (PDT)

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On 11-May-99 David Guo wrote:
> Hi.
> I have add some "feature" in the kernel to remote control it's reboot.
> When someone from a certain host trigger a certain port (like 24) for some
> times , the machine will reboot, I use machine_restart(NULL), But after
> reboot the ext2fs will have some bad inode or so. Is there any way to do
> sync before reboot ?

The best thing to do would be to run the shutdown script. If that's not
possible, remounting all partitions read-only should do the trick and save you
an fsck. You should be able to implement this with a simple system call.

-Dave

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