Re: Disambiguation for panic_timeout's sysctl

[Ricky Beam]

On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Olaf Hering wrote:
>> 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

/proc/sys/kernel/panic has been around for YEARS:

  [cramer:ttyp0]dominion:~/[10:52am]:uname -a
  Linux dominion 2.3.42-SMP #11 SMP Sun Feb 6 20:06:02 EST 2000 i686
                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ****
  [cramer:ttyp0]dominion:~/[10:52am]:ls -l /proc/sys/kernel/panic
  -rw-r--r--   1 root     root            0 Nov  1 10:52 /proc/sys/kernel/panic

And that's the oldest kernel I happen to have running at the moment.

--Ricky


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