4.4BSD/usr/share/man/cat2/reboot.0
REBOOT(2) BSD Programmer's Manual REBOOT(2)
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rreebboooott - reboot system or halt processor
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_i_n_t
rreebboooott(_i_n_t _h_o_w_t_o);
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RReebboooott() reboots the system. Only the super-user may reboot a machine on
demand. However, a reboot is invoked automatically in the event of unre-
coverable system failures.
_H_o_w_t_o is a mask of options; the system call interface allows the follow-
ing options, defined in the include file <_s_y_s_/_r_e_b_o_o_t_._h>, to be passed to
the new kernel or the new bootstrap and init programs.
RB_AUTOBOOT The default, causing the system to reboot in its usual
fashion.
RB_ASKNAME Interpreted by the bootstrap program itself, causing it to
prompt on the console as to what file should be booted.
Normally, the system is booted from the file
``_x_x(0,0)vmunix'', where _x_x is the default disk name, with-
out prompting for the file name.
RB_DFLTROOT Use the compiled in root device. Normally, the system uses
the device from which it was booted as the root device if
possible. (The default behavior is dependent on the abili-
ty of the bootstrap program to determine the drive from
which it was loaded, which is not possible on all systems.)
RB_DUMP Dump kernel memory before rebooting; see savecore(8) for
more information.
RB_HALT the processor is simply halted; no reboot takes place.
This option should be used with caution.
RB_INITNAME An option allowing the specification of an init program
(see init(8)) other than _/_s_b_i_n_/_i_n_i_t to be run when the
system reboots. This switch is not currently available.
RB_KDB Load the symbol table and enable a built-in debugger in the
system. This option will have no useful function if the
kernel is not configured for debugging. Several other op-
tions have different meaning if combined with this option,
although their use may not be possible via the rreebboooott()
call. See kadb(4) for more information.
RB_NOSYNC Normally, the disks are sync'd (see sync(8)) before the
processor is halted or rebooted. This option may be useful
if file system changes have been made manually or if the
processor is on fire.
RB_RDONLY Initially mount the root file system read-only. This is
currently the default, and this option has been deprecated.
RB_SINGLE Normally, the reboot procedure involves an automatic disk
consistency check and then multi-user operations.
RB_SINGLE prevents this, booting the system with a single-
user shell on the console. RB_SINGLE is actually inter-
preted by the init(8) program in the newly booted system.
When no options are given (i.e., RB_AUTOBOOT is used), the
system is rebooted from file ``vmunix'' in the root file
system of unit 0 of a disk chosen in a processor specific
way. An automatic consistency check of the disks is nor-
mally performed (see fsck(8)).
RREETTUURRNN VVAALLUUEESS
If successful, this call never returns. Otherwise, a -1 is returned and
an error is returned in the global variable _e_r_r_n_o.
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[EPERM] The caller is not the super-user.
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kadb(4), crash(8), halt(8), init(8), reboot(8), savecore(8)
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The HP300 implementation supports neither RB_DFLTROOT nor RB_KDB.
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The rreebboooott function call appeared in 4.0BSD.
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