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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: bde@zeta.org.au, peter@netplex.com.au
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_shutdown.c
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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

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