.TH REBOOT 2
.SH NAME
reboot \- close down the system or reboot
.SH SYNTAX
.ft B
.nf
int reboot(int \fIflag\fP)
.fi
.ft P
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B Reboot()
is used to close down the system.  It currently allows two ways of shutting
down: a reboot (\fIflag\fP is 1) or a halt (\fIflag\fP is 0).  The procedure
eliminates all the running processes and then sync's the disks and marks all
mounted file systems as being clean.  After this the required action
indicated by
.I flag
is taken.
.PP
.B Reboot()
may only be executed by the super-user.
.SH DIAGNOSTICS
If the call succeeds, it never returns.  If something went wrong,
the return value is -1 and an error is indicated by
.BR errno .
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR shutdown (8),
.BR reboot (8),
.BR halt (8),
.BR sync (1).
.SH AUTHOR
Edvard Tuinder (v892231@si.hhs.NL)