[Bug 280941] The reboot command considered harmful

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

--- Comment #10 from Anton Shepelev <ant-x@rambler.ru> ---
Maxim Konovalov:

> While it might be counter-intuitive to some people there
> is obviously a cohort that finds the current behavior
> quite intuitive. I am one of them and used to what
> reboot(8) has been doing for decades.

Habit is not intuition.  For exaple, vi's `hjkl' navigation
is not intuituve, yet users learn it by constant practice.
I still insist that `reboot' is counter-intuitive because by
default and without any parameters it should perform a
normal, graceful reboot.

Ed Maste:

> > a new command-line option, such as -f
>
> I like the idea, but -f is already taken:
>
> reboot [-cDdflNnpqr] [-e variable=value] [-k kernel] [-o options]

Who'd imagine so meny options and parameters to `reboot'?
Where did you find them?  On official man-page the syntax
differs:

  reboot [-cdlNnpqr] [-k kernel]
  <https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?reboot(8)>

Anyway, even if -f (for fast) and -q (for quick) are
taken -- something I ought to have checked myself -- how
about the uppercase -F?

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