Having it tunable at run-time would be optimal.

All this stuff that is a simple set of parameters makes sense to have
tunable at run-time; it's not like we're activating
differently-performing code via something better suited for an #ifdef.

On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

# > In message <20011212192033.A12114@antioche.lip6.fr>
# > 	on Wed, 12 Dec 2001 19:20:33 +0100,
# > 	Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr> wrote:
# > > open the tape device until it succeeds. If after 2mn it can't open the
# > > tape device it fall back to prompting the user.
# > Should "2 minutes" be tunable?
#
# I took 2mn because it's what solaris use. I'm not sure it really needs to be
# tunable (it should never time out in normal use), but we can bump it if you
# feel it's not enouth.



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