[Gllug] sync,sync, init 0

[Nix]

On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Simon Stewart spake:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 04:35:24PM +0000, t.clarke wrote:
>>
>> I thought init did its own syncing when shutting down !
> 
> The sysadmin at my university thought otherwise, and there's no
> mention of sync in the init man page. It might just be a case of
> "better safe than fscked" though.

Oh, RTFS, for goodness' sake.

sysvinit-2.78 does do its own syncing (see src/halt.c line 237 and
src/shutdown.c lines 215 and 263).

(However, I still prefer to sync myself in the shutdown scripts; syncing
repeatedly does no harm and provides insurance should the behaviour of
sysvinit change in the future.)

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 write a shell script that handles its arguments correctly, or a
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