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Subject: RE: what is the difference between shutdown command and writing to /sys/power/state
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:37:03 -0700
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From: "Agarwal, Lomesh" <lomesh.agarwal@intel.com>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
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Can you tell me the differences?
Also what do you mean by - depending also on what you mean by 'now'? I
gave now as a time parameter to shutdown command. How can it be
interpreted in a different way?

-----Original Message-----
From: Rafael J. Wysocki [mailto:rjw@sisk.pl] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 2:35 PM
To: Agarwal, Lomesh
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: what is the difference between shutdown command and writing
to /sys/power/state

On Wednesday, 19 September 2007 20:50, Agarwal, Lomesh wrote:
> Does linux handles writing "disk" to /sys/power/state and shutdown -P
> now differently (except writing to disk part)?

Yes, it does (depending also on what you mean by 'now').

Greetings,
Rafael
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