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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Disambiguation for panic_timeout's sysctl
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 12:04:11 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041101120411.GA26958@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041101120227.GA24626@suse.de>

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?


  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-01 12:04 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 [this message]
2004-11-01 12:06     ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-11-01 12:07     ` Olaf Hering
2004-11-01 16:02       ` Ricky Beam
2004-11-01 16:06       ` Randy.Dunlap

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