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Re: Patch for shutdown


On 5/20/2013 9:59 AM, Fedin Pavel wrote:
> At the other hand, IMHO, Windows .bat scripts are never run from wihin
> bash, and vice versa, UNIX .sh scripts are never run from within
> cmd.exe... And following the same logic we would need to teach our
> find.exe (already mentioned on this list) to understand Windows
> options instead of UNIX options... Even further, in terminal case, why
> have Cygwin at all ? It is different from Windows command line and
> this is confusing... Kind regards. 

Unlike the 'find' command, the shutdown command can leave the machine in
a state which cannot be recovered without physical access.   That is the
difference as I see it and it is a significant difference.

Sincerely

Jeffrey Altman



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