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SubjectRe: Disambiguation for panic_timeout's sysctl
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?

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