NAME
reboot − reboot system or halt processor
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/reboot.h>
int reboot(int howto, char *bootargs);
DESCRIPTION
The
reboot() function reboots the system. The
howto argument specifies the behavior of the system
while rebooting and is a mask constructed by a
bitwise-inclusive-OR of flags from the following list:
RE_AUTOBOOT
The machine is rebooted from the root filesystem on the default boot device. This is the default behavior. See boot(1M) and kernel(1M).
RB_HALT
The processor is simply halted; no reboot takes place. This option should be used with caution.
RB_ASKNAME
Interpreted by the bootstrap program and kernel, causing the user to be asked for pathnames during the bootstrap.
RB_DUMP
The system is forced to panic immediately without any further processing and a crash dump is written to the dump device (see dumpadm(1M)) before rebooting.
Any other howto argument causes the kernel file to boot.
The interpretation of the bootargs argument is platform-dependent.
RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, reboot() never returns. Otherwise, −1 is returned and errno is set to indicate the error.
ERRORS
The reboot() function will fail if:
|
EPERM |
The caller is not the super-user. |
USAGE
Only the super-user may reboot() a machine.
SEE ALSO
intro(1M), boot(1M), dumpadm(1M), halt(1M), init(1M), kernel(1M), reboot(1M), uadmin(2)