Subject: Re: CVS commit: basesrc
To: NetBSD-current Discussion List <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com>
List: current-users
Date: 05/16/2001 15:20:11
"Greg" == "Greg A. Woods <woods@planix.com>"
"Thor" == "Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>"
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Greg: If You really don't like that then put a watchdog timer on the power bar
Greg: and make sure your watchdog reset process *does* have a shutdown script!

Thor: shutdown scripts that don't supply such a time limit should not be run.

Greg: You've got it completely backwards!
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"Make it configurable."

I think that there should be a configurable timeout for things like this,
including a value for "never".

				--*greywolf;
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