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Sortix nightly manual

This manual documents Sortix nightly, a development build that has not been officially released. You can instead view this document in the latest official manual.

NAME

halt — halt the computer

SYNOPSIS

halt

DESCRIPTION

halt gracefully halts the computer by sending a request to the appropriate init(8) process.

EXIT STATUS

halt will exit 0 on success and non-zero otherwise.

SEE ALSO

init(8), poweroff(8), reboot(8), shutdown(8)
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