[Pkg-sysvinit-commits] r1410 - in sysvinit-upstream/trunk: doc man

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

Author: pere
Date: 2009-07-10 19:08:31 +0000 (Fri, 10 Jul 2009)
New Revision: 1410

Modified:
   sysvinit-upstream/trunk/doc/Changelog
   sysvinit-upstream/trunk/man/halt.8
Log:
Document in halt(8) that -n might not disable all syncing.

Modified: sysvinit-upstream/trunk/doc/Changelog
===================================================================
--- sysvinit-upstream/trunk/doc/Changelog	2009-07-10 19:06:52 UTC (rev 1409)
+++ sysvinit-upstream/trunk/doc/Changelog	2009-07-10 19:08:31 UTC (rev 1410)
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
   * Correct section of mountpoint(1).
   * Document -e and -t options for telinit in init(8).
   * Update address of FSF in the COPYRIGHT file.
+  * Document in halt(8) that -n might not disable all syncing.
 
  -- Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at debian.org>  Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:14:58 +0200
 

Modified: sysvinit-upstream/trunk/man/halt.8
===================================================================
--- sysvinit-upstream/trunk/man/halt.8	2009-07-10 19:06:52 UTC (rev 1409)
+++ sysvinit-upstream/trunk/man/halt.8	2009-07-10 19:08:31 UTC (rev 1410)
@@ -50,7 +50,8 @@
 .\"{{{  Options
 .SH OPTIONS
 .IP \fB\-n\fP
-Don't sync before reboot or halt.
+Don't sync before reboot or halt. Note that the kernel and storage
+drivers may still sync.
 .IP \fB\-w\fP
 Don't actually reboot or halt but only write the wtmp record
 (in the \fI/var/log/wtmp\fP file).