Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 01 Nov 2004 08:06:58 -0800 | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: Disambiguation for panic_timeout's sysctl |
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Olaf Hering wrote: > On Mon, Nov 01, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > >>On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 01:02:27PM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote: >> >>> On Sun, Oct 31, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >>> >>> >>>> >>>>The /proc/sys/kernel/panic file looked to me like it was something like >>>>/proc/sysrq-trigger -- until I looked into the kernel sources which reveal that >>>>it sets the variable "panic_timeout" in kernel/sched.c. >>> >>>This will probably break applications that expect the filename 'panic'. >> >>And why should applications care for the panic timeout? Especially only >>a few days after it's been added to the kernel? > > > /proc/sys/kernel/panic exists since at least 2.6.5. > Its used to override the silly default '0' on i386, but one should be > able to boot with panic=$bignum
It's not new. It's in 2.4.26. And it's documented in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt, so any patch that changes it should also change that .txt file.
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