Re: Disambiguation for panic_timeout's sysctl

[Randy.Dunlap]

Olaf Hering wrote:
>  On Mon, Nov 01, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
>
> > 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?
>
>
> /proc/sys/kernel/panic exists since at least 2.6.5.
> Its used to override the silly default '0' on i386, but one should be
> able to boot with panic=$bignum

It's not new.  It's in 2.4.26.
And it's documented in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt,
so any patch that changes it should also change that .txt file.



--
~Randy
MOTD:  Always include version info.
(Again.  Sometimes I think ln -s /usr/src/linux/.config .signature)
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