2007/4/15, Russ Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Additionally, we can't assume it starts off. The value is never
> initialized in the C code, so it could be 0, 1, or 382355318. I'm
> assuming that kencc zeroes uninitialized variables in the text, but
> I'm not sure.
This is just not true. Global variables in C are guaranteed
to be zeroed at program start time.
I'm stupid.
> Would be nice to know what it does exactly, and why on earth it uses
> /dev/reboot. Note that there is no way to check the state of the
> variable, so one has no clue if one is enabling or disabling
> 'coopsched', whatever it does this interface is clearly far from
> ideal.
True enough. The toggle was only so it could be turned off
easily if it was a bad idea, and so that the difference could
be measured. But it turned out to be a good idea and I never
got around to removing the cruft. The cruft is now gone
from sources.
This means it should probably be removed from cpurc.local, too, right?
I see it's still there on sources (see uriel's original post with
geoff's change).
--dho
