Re: [PATCH] /proc/sysrq-trigger can now pause processing for one second

[Jiri Slaby]

On 18. 12. 23, 12:42, Tomas Mudrunka wrote:
> Writing ',' to /proc/sysrq-trigger now causes processing to
> pause for one second.
>
> This is useful, because recently accepted patch allows
> to write multiple keys at once to /proc/sysrq-trigger.
> But it might be desirable to add slight delay between actions.
>
> Eg. between (e)TERM and (i)KILL it makes sense to put slight delay,
> so processes have chance to run TERM handlers before being KILLed.
>
> Now we can send TERM, wait for two seconds and KILL like this:
>
> echo _e,,i > /proc/sysrq-trigger

Bah, what's wrong with:
 echo e > /proc/sysrq-trigger
 sleep 2
 echo i > /proc/sysrq-trigger
?

thanks,
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js
suse labs