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Short: Shutdown command
Author: fasten@shw.com (Bernhard Fastenrath)
Uploader: fasten@shw.com (Bernhard Fastenrath)
Version: 3.0
Type: util/libs
Replaces: util/libs/halt.lzh
The Amiga's lack of a shutdown mechanism is probably based on the assumption
that the user is always the direct cause of disk access or at least aware of
the fact that the disks might be accessed at a certain point.
Unfortunately this is obviously not true for BBS systems or Amigas connected
to a LAN or in some other way running in a multiuser environment. It is also
not true for Amigas acting as servers or Amigas doing longer calculations
(e.g. rendering) in the absence of a console user. There's also still the
small chance that the user thinks the disks are idle and it's safe to turn of
the system and a background program chooses this moment to start disk activity.
This shutdown command requires queue.library (which is included). The full
archive is AmiNet:util/libs/queue.lzh. It can be used with but does not
require shutdown.library (AmiNet:util/boot/Shutdown2_0.lha). The original
shutdown.library was written by Olaf Barthel (olsen@sourcery.han.de).
A small library which is compatible with Olaf's shutdown.library is included.
This is not an update to the original shutdown.library but a full update will
probably follow.
Recompilation with gcc requires a patch to libnix (libinit.o) which will
be included with libnix 1.1.
============================= Archive contents =============================
Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
-------- ------- ----- --------- -------- -------------
0 0 0.0% 26-Oct-95 22:00:10 +
0 0 0.0% 26-Oct-95 20:12:28 +
16828 8617 48.7% 25-Oct-95 15:47:46 +sdwarn
22068 11077 49.8% 26-Oct-95 20:01:26 +shutdown
0 0 0.0% 26-Oct-95 22:00:10 +
1069 330 69.1% 23-Oct-95 18:37:42 +REGISTRATION
28881 10691 62.9% 26-Oct-95 19:44:18 +shutdown.guide
1429 729 48.9% 26-Oct-95 22:04:56 +shutdown.readme
0 0 0.0% 26-Oct-95 20:09:04 +
4708 2252 52.1% 26-Oct-95 20:08:30 +queue.library
3176 1615 49.1% 26-Oct-95 20:09:04 +shutdown.library
0 0 0.0% 26-Oct-95 20:12:08 +
344 180 47.6% 26-Oct-95 19:10:28 +makefile
0 0 0.0% 26-Oct-95 20:08:52 +
794 430 45.8% 23-Oct-95 18:45:58 +queue.h
3028 612 79.7% 23-Oct-95 18:45:58 +queue_inline.h
2231 951 57.3% 24-Oct-95 14:16:06 +shutdown.h
6278 2188 65.1% 25-Oct-95 15:47:00 +sdwarn.c
12127 3690 69.5% 26-Oct-95 20:00:34 +shutdown.c
935 402 57.0% 24-Oct-95 18:41:06 +shutdown_cmd.h
0 0 0.0% 26-Oct-95 20:09:28 +
347 205 40.9% 26-Oct-95 19:53:26 +makefile
1767 528 70.1% 26-Oct-95 19:53:24 +shutdown_inline.h
176 129 26.7% 26-Oct-95 19:53:24 +shutdown_lib.fd
4420 1605 63.6% 26-Oct-95 19:53:24 +shutdown_library.c
338 163 51.7% 26-Oct-95 19:53:24 +shutdown_library.h
412 192 53.3% 26-Oct-95 19:53:24 +shutdownbase.h
3461 1331 61.5% 24-Oct-95 18:58:10 +unmount.c
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114817 47917 58.2% 28-Oct-95 13:08:56 28 files