Re: Disambiguation for panic_timeout's sysctl

From: Olaf Hering
Date: Mon Nov 01 2004 - 07:03:15 EST


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'.

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