[Gllug] Building Intranet Kiosks

[Simon Stewart]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 04:00:49PM +0100, tet at accucard.com wrote:
> 
> >... which is about as subtle as a brick through a window.
> 
> No, it's considerably more subtle than a brick through the window.
> He quite generously calls sync(), when it's not strictly necessary...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't syncing three times to disk and
then going to run level 0 the "ye olde" way of shutting down a UNIX
system?

Cheers,

Simon

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