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| author | WaLyong Cho <walyong.cho@samsung.com> | 2013-11-06 17:02:41 +0900 |
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| committer | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> | 2013-11-07 01:23:54 -0500 |
| commit | 37185ec80ad372907a2a9388735655a7334babb6 (patch) | |
| tree | 9fa29d5bacf8da53b1ac0ef300fc81784b6eb5f6 /man/systemctl.xml | |
| parent | 3f09ee19690730cd69e4986d72da2d9bb7c04a6a (diff) | |
Support additional argument in reboot
reboot syscall can be performed with an additional argument. In some
systems this functionality can be useful to modify the mode of the
next boot performed by the bootloader.
Diffstat (limited to 'man/systemctl.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/systemctl.xml | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemctl.xml b/man/systemctl.xml index c7313edcc2..7f1e98f5c5 100644 --- a/man/systemctl.xml +++ b/man/systemctl.xml @@ -1179,7 +1179,7 @@ kobject-uevent 1 systemd-udevd-kernel.socket systemd-udevd.service </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> - <term><command>reboot</command></term> + <term><command>reboot <optional><replaceable>arg</replaceable></optional></command></term> <listitem> <para>Shut down and reboot the system. This is mostly @@ -1192,6 +1192,16 @@ kobject-uevent 1 systemd-udevd-kernel.socket systemd-udevd.service specified twice, the operation is immediately executed without terminating any processes or unmounting any file systems. This may result in data loss.</para> + + <para>If the optional argument + <replaceable>arg</replaceable> is given, it will be passed + as the optional argument to the + <citerefentry><refentrytitle>reboot</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry> + system call. The value is architecture and firmware + specific. As an example, <literal>recovery</literal> might + be used to trigger system recovery, and + <literal>fota</literal> might be used to trigger a + <quote>firmware over the air</quote> update.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> |