On Sat, 16 Jul 2005, Rick Kelly wrote: > The main reason for sync;sync;sync on V7 UNIX was because you couldn't > do a shutdown, only a halt to the hardware monitor, on the PDP11. You > can verify that behavior with SIMH. :-)
And you weren't supposed to use "sync;sync;sync" but this: # sync # sync # sync They were *not* the same. -- Dave _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
