You rarely need to reboot a QNX Neutrino system. If a driver or other system process crashes, you can usually restart that one process.
To shut down or reboot the system, use the shutdown command. You can do this only if you're logged in as root. This utility has several options that let you:
Before the shutdown program shuts down the system, it sends a SIGTERM signal to any running processes, to give them the opportunity to terminate cleanly. For more information, see the Utilities Reference.