From: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Disambiguation for panic_timeout's sysctl
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 13:07:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041101120704.GB24626@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041101120411.GA26958@infradead.org>
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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-01 12:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-31 16:27 Disambiguation for panic_timeout's sysctl Jan Engelhardt
2004-11-01 12:02 ` Olaf Hering
2004-11-01 12:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-11-01 12:06 ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-11-01 12:07 ` Olaf Hering [this message]
2004-11-01 16:02 ` Ricky Beam
2004-11-01 16:06 ` Randy.Dunlap
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