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It doesn't really make a lot of sense to say that we desire the server 'be rebooting'. Rebooting is (expected to be) a transitional state. If I want to make sure a machine has been rebooted, I reboot it 2 times because I never got confirmation of the first attempt, is the resulting state different than if I rebooted just once? That's the question, at least as the OP sees it.

JimmyJames
– JimmyJames

2021-06-09 19:48:13 +00:00
Commented Jun 9, 2021 at 19:48
@JimmyJames Exactly. Hans-Martin Mosner’s answer is interesting because it seems that Mike Kelly actually used that same transitional state as the intended effect of a reboot request, but during the reboot rather than after like Hans-Martin Mosner, to conclude that rebooting is idempotent! So we agree that both arguments based on transitional state are incorrect.

Géry Ogam
– Géry Ogam

2021-06-09 22:27:50 +00:00
Commented Jun 9, 2021 at 22:27

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