Re: [9fans] Re: [sources] 20070413: /rc/bin/cpurc.local

["Devon H. O'Dell" <devon.odell@gmail.com>]

2007/4/15, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>:
> > 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