Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261759AbUKAMET (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Nov 2004 07:04:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261761AbUKAMET (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Nov 2004 07:04:19 -0500 Received: from phoenix.infradead.org ([81.187.226.98]:8966 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261759AbUKAMEQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Nov 2004 07:04:16 -0500 Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 12:04:11 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Olaf Hering Cc: Jan Engelhardt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Disambiguation for panic_timeout's sysctl Message-ID: <20041101120411.GA26958@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Olaf Hering , Jan Engelhardt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20041101120227.GA24626@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041101120227.GA24626@suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by phoenix.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 779 Lines: 19 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? - 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/