Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261720AbUKAMCb (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Nov 2004 07:02:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261759AbUKAMCa (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Nov 2004 07:02:30 -0500 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:13727 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261720AbUKAMC2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Nov 2004 07:02:28 -0500 Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 13:02:27 +0100 From: Olaf Hering To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Disambiguation for panic_timeout's sysctl Message-ID: <20041101120227.GA24626@suse.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: X-DOS: I got your 640K Real Mode Right Here Buddy! X-Homeland-Security: You are not supposed to read this line! You are a terrorist! User-Agent: Mutt und vi sind doch schneller als Notes (und GroupWise) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 646 Lines: 19 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'. -- USB is for mice, FireWire is for men! sUse lINUX ag, nÜRNBERG - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/