Re: Allow userspace do something special on overtemp

Pavel Machek
2004-08-11T20:29:38Z

Hi!

> > > >.adds possibility to react to
> > > > critical overtemp: it tries to call /sbin/overtemp, and only if
> > that fails calls /sbin/poweroff.
>
> Does /sbin/overtemp exist anyplace, or is this a proposal
> to create it? What might it do?

It does not exist anywhere, but probably will exist in SL92.

It might:
* shutdown faster (poweroff is very carefull but not too fast;
* display big red message "sorry your cpu overheated" then shutdown :-)
* do nothing (use with care if your thermal sensor is flakey)

Pavel
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