On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 05:32:03PM +0100, Jaromir Dolecek wrote:
> Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> > It would be possible to make it use the current interface to tell
> > userland the temperature. However, the "tell the user the temperature"
> > part of the Thermal Zone stuff is the smallest part of it -- like the
> > paint on a car vs. the rest of the car. The parts that are actually
> > important deal with doing things like keeping your system from
> > melting.
> 
> Well, I presumed there would be some userland daemon to actually
> take care of taking steps to avoid system meltdown, and the
> daemon would somehow need to know current values. Using sysmon
> would have advantage of using same interface as other environment
> sensors.

Um.  This seems like a very poor idea.  So, the user runs "shutdown"
or "kill 1", putters around single-user for a few minutes, and permanently
damages his hardware?  No thank you!

Thor