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| author | Wade A Smith <warm38@juno.com> | 1998-09-21 15:17:00 +0000 |
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| committer | Wade A Smith <warm38@juno.com> | 1998-09-21 15:17:00 +0000 |
| commit | f9b0efb045aff9d337dc55d9a6e14fe298dbad2d (patch) | |
| tree | 1d31cdbec13c97441ddaf1347832ab2abc82473b /doc/new_chapters | |
| parent | Corrected ColdFire port information. (diff) | |
| download | rtems-f9b0efb045aff9d337dc55d9a6e14fe298dbad2d.tar.bz2 | |
Described the constants used by the admin_type in the background section
of this file.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/new_chapters/adminiface.t | 24 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/doc/new_chapters/adminiface.t b/doc/new_chapters/adminiface.t index 0e1a886574..c38b551e96 100644 --- a/doc/new_chapters/adminiface.t +++ b/doc/new_chapters/adminiface.t @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ The administration interface manager provides a portable interface for some system administrative functions. -The capabilities in this manager were defined in the POSIX +The capabilities in this manager are defined in the POSIX 1003.1h/D3 proposed standard titled @b{Services for Reliable, Available, and Serviceable Systems}. @@ -36,29 +36,33 @@ This field ... @table @b @item ADMIN_AUTOBOOT -This field ... +The default, causing the system to reboot in its usual fashion. The +@code{admin_data} field points to an implementation defined string +that specifies the system image to reboot. @item ADMIN_HALT -This field ... +The system is simply halted; no reboot takes place. @item ADMIN_FAST -This field ... +The system does no send SIGTERM to active processes before halting. @item ADMIN_IMMEDIATE -This field ... +The system does not perform any of the normal shutdown procedures. @item ADMIN_ALTSYSTEM -This field ... +The system reboots using the @code{admin_data} string as a specification +of the system to be booted. @item ADMIN_ALTCONFIG -This field ... +The system reboots using the @code{admin_data} string as a specification +of the initial implicit configuration space. @item ADMIN_SYSDUMP -This field ... +Dump kernal memory before rebooting. @item ADMIN_INIT -This field ... - +An option allowing the specification of an alternate initial program +to be run when the system reboots. @end table |