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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 -- USB is for mice, FireWire is for men! sUse lINUX ag, nÜRNBERG - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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