[Toybox] [PATCH] reboot/halt/poweroff: add -d.

[enh]

On Sat, Sep 11, 2021 at 10:16 AM Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:

> On 9/10/21 6:31 PM, enh via Toybox wrote:
> > busybox has a -d that delays before proceeding. Annoyingly systemd also
> > has a -d, but that's to disable writing a wtmp shutdown entry.
>
> I've mostly said SECONDS and then had toybox --help explain about the
> fraction,
> but I'm aware that users aren't necessarily getting that information. Hmmm.
> Repeating the big long explanation everywhere that uses it seems less than
> ideal
> too. There's a todo item here I need to figure out.
>

yeah, though one reason i used DURATION rather than DELAY was because
there's a few uses of that.

personally, it's the places where we explain `-` as a filename that bug me.

maybe some kind of #include mechanism for "things you ought to know, but
might not"?


> Also, option parsing is STILL getting --help subtly wrong:
>
>   $ ./toybox halt --help
>   toybox: Not root (see "toybox --help")
>

heh, i was just about to look at that myself. i'll leave it if you're
looking!


> Sigh...
>
> Rob
>
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