Tough interview questions.

Sat Aug 14 12:07:33 PDT 2004

> A question somewhat the converse to that one might also be quite 
> interesting-- "I power off a running system, which has not been prepared 
> for power-off in any way; can that damage anything, and if so, what, 
> why, and how?"

In a recent interview, I got that question from a different perspective:
name as many ways as you can to stop a running system (Solaris, mostly),
without worrying about how graceful it is...
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