Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 17:29:23 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, peter@netplex.com.au Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, msmith@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_shutdown.c Message-ID: <199901310629.RAA24135@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> > Log: >> > Add a new sysctl node kern.shutdown, off which shutdown-related things >> > can be hung. >> >> WHy have a whole hierarchy for this? The old kern-level variable >> kern.shutdown_timeout was so important that it was never used. > >I did, and I suspect that other people that ran things like squid certainly >did too. Actually, it was actually used by init(8) even in /usr/src, so it should not have been removed. However, storing application variables in the kernel is bogus. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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