eject from halt

[Scott James Remnant]

On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 11:23 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:

> Not without doing some sort of hack to precache binaries.  Because you
> want to eject and then halt.  If you have to do eject separately in the
> script, then you need to be sure that halt exists in the buffer cache so
> that you don't need to go to the (now ejected) CD to read the halt
> binary
> 
There's no guarantee that all of halt will be in the cache either, you
may well eject inside halt and be unable to page in the rest of the
binary to actually do the syscall.

Scott
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