On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 03:50:46PM +0300, Jukka Ruohonen wrote: > I would go for (3), perhaps with a "-s" flag to halt(8). This would also solve > the user interface issue that remains unresolved in options (1) and (2). > Extending halt(8) has been discussed also previously (cf. e.g. [1]).
Don't mix it with the user interface or "halt", it is completely unrelated. I would go for (2), since there already is "gracefull shutdown" code in there, but it needs MD extensions for this case. Martin
