On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 7:45 PM, Frank Griffin <[email protected]> wrote: > On 08/09/2012 02:35 PM, Olivier Blin wrote: >> >> Thierry Vignaud <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> Hi >>> >>> I've the impression that for some time, kernels do not power off machines >>> anymore on shutdown. >>> The kernel prints "System halted." but the machine remains powered. >>> I've seen that with VMs and with real PCs. >> >> > There was a discussion some months back about this (I forget whether it was > here or cooker). Basically, someone discovered that "halt" had been > out-of-spec for years because it wasn't *supposed* to power the machine off > --- you were supposed to use "poweroff" for that. So it got "fixed", and a > bunch of people started asking "what happened ?".
Yes because it totally makes sense to have a command to halt the operating system but leave the machine using some power for nothing (and preventing you from powering it on with wol). I am sure someone believes it can be useful in some strange scenario.
