shutdown: remove explicit sync() invocations

The kernel implicitly does sync() anyway, hence there is no need to do
that in userspace explicitly. This makes the "-n" switch to halt(8) a
noop.

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/core/shutdown.c b/src/core/shutdown.c
index c3a4c390be..558111b3d4 100644
--- a/src/core/shutdown.c
+++ b/src/core/shutdown.c
@@ -279,8 +279,6 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
                 }
         }
 
-        sync();
-
         if (cmd == LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_KEXEC) {
                 /* We cheat and exec kexec to avoid doing all its work */
                 pid_t pid = fork();