Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 1 Nov 2004 13:06:29 +0100 (MET) | | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | | Subject | Re: Disambiguation for panic_timeout's sysctl |
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>> > 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?
So it's a brand new variable in sysctl after all? Well then I'd like the change even more :)
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