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On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Ian Dowse wrote:

> [Interestingly, init(8) reads a sysctl `kern.shutdown_timeout' to
> override the default delay while running rc.shutdown; that sysctl
> was removed over two years ago in init_main.c r1.107].

init_main.c r1.107 is just a bug.  The sysctl was not unused; it was
used by init(8) (only) and still would be if it existed.  Sysctls
shouldn't be used to configure applications, but that is another bug.

Bruce


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