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| [9] | 1 | .TH REBOOT 2
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| 2 | .SH NAME
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| 3 | reboot \- close down the system or reboot
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| 4 | .SH SYNTAX
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| 5 | .ft B
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| 6 | .nf
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| 7 | #define _MINIX_SOURCE 1
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| 8 |
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| 9 | #include <unistd.h>
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| 10 |
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| 11 | int reboot(int \fIhow\fP, ...)
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| 12 | .fi
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| 13 | .ft P
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| 14 | .SH DESCRIPTION
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| 15 | .B Reboot()
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| 16 | is used to close down the system. It allows several ways of shutting
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| 17 | down depending on
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| 18 | .IR how :
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| 19 | .PP
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| 20 | .TP 5
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| 21 | .BI "reboot(RBT_HALT)"
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| 22 | Halt the system and return to the monitor prompt.
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| 23 | .TP
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| 24 | .BI "reboot(RBT_REBOOT)"
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| 25 | Reboot the system by letting the monitor execute the "boot" command.
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| 26 | .TP
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| 27 | .BI "reboot(RBT_PANIC)"
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| 28 | Cause a system panic. This is not normally done from user mode, but by
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| 29 | servers using the
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| 30 | .B sys_abort()
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| 31 | kernel call.
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| 32 | .TP
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| 33 | .BI "reboot(RBT_MONITOR" ", code, length" ")"
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| 34 | Halt the system and let the monitor execute the given code of the given
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| 35 | length.
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| 36 | .RI ( code
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| 37 | is of type
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| 38 | .B "char *"
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| 39 | and
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| 40 | .I length
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| 41 | of type
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| 42 | .BR size_t .)
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| 43 | .TP
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| 44 | .BI "reboot(RBT_RESET)"
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| 45 | Reboot the system with a hardware reset.
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| 46 | .PP
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| 47 | .B Reboot()
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| 48 | may only be executed by the super-user.
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| 49 | .SH DIAGNOSTICS
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| 50 | If the call succeeds, it never returns. If something went wrong,
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| 51 | the return value is -1 and an error is indicated by
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| 52 | .BR errno .
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| 53 | .SH SEE ALSO
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| 54 | .BR shutdown (8),
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| 55 | .BR reboot (8),
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| 56 | .BR halt (8),
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| 57 | .BR sync (2).
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| 58 | .SH NOTES
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| 59 | MINIX 3 can not return to the monitor if running in real mode. This means
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| 60 | that most of the reboot functions will change to a system reset.
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| 61 | .SH AUTHOR
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| 62 | Edvard Tuinder (v892231@si.hhs.NL)
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