Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 1 Nov 2004 12:04:11 +0000 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: Disambiguation for panic_timeout's sysctl |
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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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