[Bug 280941] The reboot command considered harmful

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=280941

Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org> changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org> ---
Embedded systems sometimes need a reboot this instant functionality.

However, that can be bound to a number of other historic interfaces.

In our systems at $WORK we have almost no aliases, but we do have "reboot"
aliased to "shutdown -r now"

This was hashed out maybe 15 or so years ago, and there was only mild support
for doing something like this at the time. Since then, Linux's way has become
more entrenched and the 'reboot right this instant' crowd has gone from small,
but significant minority to almost nonexistant group. Most people tolerate the
behavior, but few strongly support it.

I'd suggest that we only do the current behavior when invoked as 'fastboot' or
'fasthalt'.

But I fear it would be a big bikeshed, so that "we" will need to be someone
else.

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