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Subject: Re: [patch 2.4.19] reboot on out-of-file handles
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <gilbertd@treblig.org>
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On Sat, 2002-08-31 at 23:51, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> > You can already do this reliably in user space as part of your watchdog
> > daemon processing.
> 
> Ah - good idea.
> The only thing that doesn't do (which my patch doesn't do much of), is
> log the state of the system at failure - I'd really like to know what
> ate all the filehandles.

If your daemon keeps a few open handles to reuse and the log file it can
maybe do that when it spots the problem occurs and isnt bumping the
watchdog

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