Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Jan 2000 06:51:14 -0500 | From | James Manning <> | Subject | Re: kernel panics at google |
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[ Tuesday, January 25, 2000 ] Riley Williams wrote: > Based on what I've seen recently, what is wrong with the idea of > having /proc files specifying a single value measured in some unit > actually state the unit when it's read, along the lines of... > > Q> # cat /proc/sys/kernel/panic > Q> 0 seconds > Q> # echo 90 > /proc/sys/kernel/panic > Q> # cat /proc/sys/kernel/panic > Q> 90 seconds > Q> # > > I appreciate that any programs making use of these files would need to > be checked to see if they work with the new format, but other than > that, are there any problems with doing this?
People start trying to do things like echo 1 minute > /proc/sys/kernel/panic and expecting it to work :) After all, the whole idea of the interface is it looks/acts like a small text file, right?
Seriously, though, if you are dealing with the files in /proc you're typically doing so for a reason and while many/most cases have obvious units, the ones that don't (like this) are easy enough to look up.
I'd rather see better Documentation/ entries covering the /proc entries as they get added rather than bloat the kernel with such code.
James -- Miscellaneous Engineer --- IBM Netfinity Performance Development
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