Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 1 Nov 2004 13:07:04 +0100 | | From | Olaf Hering <> | | Subject | Re: Disambiguation for panic_timeout's sysctl |
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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
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