[arch-general] remote poweroff with systemd

[Fons Adriaensen]

On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 04:34:41PM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote:

> If you use /bin/init (which is a symlink to systemctl) it is
> synchronous, but if you change runlevel via the compatibility
> /dev/initctl it is asynchronous. I couldn't find that we ship the
> telinit binary in Arch, so don't know exactly what you were using, but
> I assume it was the legacy one using /dev/initctl, so it should have
> been async (I guess the man page should specify this).

If the man page corresponds to the actual code it was the one based
on systemd, provided only for compatibility. 

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