Updating reboot's default
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Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2022 14:01:58 UTC
15 or 20 years ago, we talked about changing the default for reboot from 'right now' to being safe shutdown. There were arguments made against it due to tiny appliances and such. Time has past, and this oddity has persisted. It's time to revisit that decision. I'd propose that we keep 'fastboot' and 'fasthalt' having the immediate behavior. However, the 'reboot' command will switch from '-q' behavior to '-r' behavior. I'll update the man page, etc to reflect these new defaults. Most of the systems I've been on in the last 10-15 years have had some flavor of 'alias reboot reboot -r' in their login scripts and/or made shell scripts that did this. This will match what everybody else is doing, and will likely result in less astonishment rather than more, even though it changes a long-standing default behavior. Comments? Warner