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| author | Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> | 2016-11-22 23:14:24 +0100 |
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| committer | Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> | 2016-11-22 23:14:24 +0100 |
| commit | fb4da167114e96d7f20ef97474f976f8ffa604e7 (patch) | |
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| parent | 9f8eb1ee7620020e01b3596ac7259d51ebca7a7b (diff) | |
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Split miscutils/Config.src items into miscutils/*.c files
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
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diff --git a/miscutils/Config.src b/miscutils/Config.src index 06f1c52ba..7325fb8fa 100644 --- a/miscutils/Config.src +++ b/miscutils/Config.src | |||
| @@ -7,528 +7,4 @@ menu "Miscellaneous Utilities" | |||
| 7 | 7 | ||
| 8 | INSERT | 8 | INSERT |
| 9 | 9 | ||
| 10 | config ADJTIMEX | ||
| 11 | bool "adjtimex" | ||
| 12 | default y | ||
| 13 | select PLATFORM_LINUX | ||
| 14 | help | ||
| 15 | Adjtimex reads and optionally sets adjustment parameters for | ||
| 16 | the Linux clock adjustment algorithm. | ||
| 17 | |||
| 18 | config BBCONFIG | ||
| 19 | bool "bbconfig" | ||
| 20 | default n | ||
| 21 | help | ||
| 22 | The bbconfig applet will print the config file with which | ||
| 23 | busybox was built. | ||
| 24 | |||
| 25 | config FEATURE_COMPRESS_BBCONFIG | ||
| 26 | bool "Compress bbconfig data" | ||
| 27 | default y | ||
| 28 | depends on BBCONFIG | ||
| 29 | help | ||
| 30 | Store bbconfig data in compressed form, uncompress them on-the-fly | ||
| 31 | before output. | ||
| 32 | |||
| 33 | If you have a really tiny busybox with few applets enabled (and | ||
| 34 | bunzip2 isn't one of them), the overhead of the decompressor might | ||
| 35 | be noticeable. Also, if you run executables directly from ROM | ||
| 36 | and have very little memory, this might not be a win. Otherwise, | ||
| 37 | you probably want this. | ||
| 38 | |||
| 39 | config BEEP | ||
| 40 | bool "beep" | ||
| 41 | default y | ||
| 42 | select PLATFORM_LINUX | ||
| 43 | help | ||
| 44 | The beep applets beeps in a given freq/Hz. | ||
| 45 | |||
| 46 | config FEATURE_BEEP_FREQ | ||
| 47 | int "default frequency" | ||
| 48 | range 0 2147483647 | ||
| 49 | default 4000 | ||
| 50 | depends on BEEP | ||
| 51 | help | ||
| 52 | Frequency for default beep. | ||
| 53 | |||
| 54 | config FEATURE_BEEP_LENGTH_MS | ||
| 55 | int "default length" | ||
| 56 | range 0 2147483647 | ||
| 57 | default 30 | ||
| 58 | depends on BEEP | ||
| 59 | help | ||
| 60 | Length in ms for default beep. | ||
| 61 | |||
| 62 | config CHAT | ||
| 63 | bool "chat" | ||
| 64 | default y | ||
| 65 | help | ||
| 66 | Simple chat utility. | ||
| 67 | |||
| 68 | config FEATURE_CHAT_NOFAIL | ||
| 69 | bool "Enable NOFAIL expect strings" | ||
| 70 | depends on CHAT | ||
| 71 | default y | ||
| 72 | help | ||
| 73 | When enabled expect strings which are started with a dash trigger | ||
| 74 | no-fail mode. That is when expectation is not met within timeout | ||
| 75 | the script is not terminated but sends next SEND string and waits | ||
| 76 | for next EXPECT string. This allows to compose far more flexible | ||
| 77 | scripts. | ||
| 78 | |||
| 79 | config FEATURE_CHAT_TTY_HIFI | ||
| 80 | bool "Force STDIN to be a TTY" | ||
| 81 | depends on CHAT | ||
| 82 | default n | ||
| 83 | help | ||
| 84 | Original chat always treats STDIN as a TTY device and sets for it | ||
| 85 | so-called raw mode. This option turns on such behaviour. | ||
| 86 | |||
| 87 | config FEATURE_CHAT_IMPLICIT_CR | ||
| 88 | bool "Enable implicit Carriage Return" | ||
| 89 | depends on CHAT | ||
| 90 | default y | ||
| 91 | help | ||
| 92 | When enabled make chat to terminate all SEND strings with a "\r" | ||
| 93 | unless "\c" is met anywhere in the string. | ||
| 94 | |||
| 95 | config FEATURE_CHAT_SWALLOW_OPTS | ||
| 96 | bool "Swallow options" | ||
| 97 | depends on CHAT | ||
| 98 | default y | ||
| 99 | help | ||
| 100 | Busybox chat require no options. To make it not fail when used | ||
| 101 | in place of original chat (which has a bunch of options) turn | ||
| 102 | this on. | ||
| 103 | |||
| 104 | config FEATURE_CHAT_SEND_ESCAPES | ||
| 105 | bool "Support weird SEND escapes" | ||
| 106 | depends on CHAT | ||
| 107 | default y | ||
| 108 | help | ||
| 109 | Original chat uses some escape sequences in SEND arguments which | ||
| 110 | are not sent to device but rather performs special actions. | ||
| 111 | E.g. "\K" means to send a break sequence to device. | ||
| 112 | "\d" delays execution for a second, "\p" -- for a 1/100 of second. | ||
| 113 | Before turning this option on think twice: do you really need them? | ||
| 114 | |||
| 115 | config FEATURE_CHAT_VAR_ABORT_LEN | ||
| 116 | bool "Support variable-length ABORT conditions" | ||
| 117 | depends on CHAT | ||
| 118 | default y | ||
| 119 | help | ||
| 120 | Original chat uses fixed 50-bytes length ABORT conditions. Say N here. | ||
| 121 | |||
| 122 | config FEATURE_CHAT_CLR_ABORT | ||
| 123 | bool "Support revoking of ABORT conditions" | ||
| 124 | depends on CHAT | ||
| 125 | default y | ||
| 126 | help | ||
| 127 | Support CLR_ABORT directive. | ||
| 128 | |||
| 129 | config CHRT | ||
| 130 | bool "chrt" | ||
| 131 | default y | ||
| 132 | help | ||
| 133 | manipulate real-time attributes of a process. | ||
| 134 | This requires sched_{g,s}etparam support in your libc. | ||
| 135 | |||
| 136 | config CRONTAB | ||
| 137 | bool "crontab" | ||
| 138 | default y | ||
| 139 | help | ||
| 140 | Crontab manipulates the crontab for a particular user. Only | ||
| 141 | the superuser may specify a different user and/or crontab directory. | ||
| 142 | Note that Busybox binary must be setuid root for this applet to | ||
| 143 | work properly. | ||
| 144 | |||
| 145 | config DC | ||
| 146 | bool "dc" | ||
| 147 | default y | ||
| 148 | help | ||
| 149 | Dc is a reverse-polish desk calculator which supports unlimited | ||
| 150 | precision arithmetic. | ||
| 151 | |||
| 152 | config FEATURE_DC_LIBM | ||
| 153 | bool "Enable power and exp functions (requires libm)" | ||
| 154 | default y | ||
| 155 | depends on DC | ||
| 156 | help | ||
| 157 | Enable power and exp functions. | ||
| 158 | NOTE: This will require libm to be present for linking. | ||
| 159 | |||
| 160 | config DEVFSD | ||
| 161 | bool "devfsd (obsolete)" | ||
| 162 | default n | ||
| 163 | select PLATFORM_LINUX | ||
| 164 | select FEATURE_SYSLOG | ||
| 165 | help | ||
| 166 | This is deprecated and should NOT be used anymore. | ||
| 167 | Use linux >= 2.6 (optionally with hotplug) and mdev instead! | ||
| 168 | See docs/mdev.txt for detailed instructions on how to use mdev | ||
| 169 | instead. | ||
| 170 | |||
| 171 | Provides compatibility with old device names on a devfs systems. | ||
| 172 | You should set it to true if you have devfs enabled. | ||
| 173 | The following keywords in devsfd.conf are supported: | ||
| 174 | "CLEAR_CONFIG", "INCLUDE", "OPTIONAL_INCLUDE", "RESTORE", | ||
| 175 | "PERMISSIONS", "EXECUTE", "COPY", "IGNORE", | ||
| 176 | "MKOLDCOMPAT", "MKNEWCOMPAT","RMOLDCOMPAT", "RMNEWCOMPAT". | ||
| 177 | |||
| 178 | But only if they are written UPPERCASE!!!!!!!! | ||
| 179 | |||
| 180 | config DEVFSD_MODLOAD | ||
| 181 | bool "Adds support for MODLOAD keyword in devsfd.conf" | ||
| 182 | default y | ||
| 183 | depends on DEVFSD | ||
| 184 | help | ||
| 185 | This actually doesn't work with busybox modutils but needs | ||
| 186 | the external modutils. | ||
| 187 | |||
| 188 | config DEVFSD_FG_NP | ||
| 189 | bool "Enables the -fg and -np options" | ||
| 190 | default y | ||
| 191 | depends on DEVFSD | ||
| 192 | help | ||
| 193 | -fg Run the daemon in the foreground. | ||
| 194 | -np Exit after parsing the configuration file. | ||
| 195 | Do not poll for events. | ||
| 196 | |||
| 197 | config DEVFSD_VERBOSE | ||
| 198 | bool "Increases logging (and size)" | ||
| 199 | default y | ||
| 200 | depends on DEVFSD | ||
| 201 | help | ||
| 202 | Increases logging to stderr or syslog. | ||
| 203 | |||
| 204 | config FEATURE_DEVFS | ||
| 205 | bool "Use devfs names for all devices (obsolete)" | ||
| 206 | default n | ||
| 207 | select PLATFORM_LINUX | ||
| 208 | help | ||
| 209 | This is obsolete and should NOT be used anymore. | ||
| 210 | Use linux >= 2.6 (optionally with hotplug) and mdev instead! | ||
| 211 | |||
| 212 | For legacy systems -- if there is no way around devfsd -- this | ||
| 213 | tells busybox to look for names like /dev/loop/0 instead of | ||
| 214 | /dev/loop0. If your /dev directory has normal names instead of | ||
| 215 | devfs names, you don't want this. | ||
| 216 | |||
| 217 | config DEVMEM | ||
| 218 | bool "devmem" | ||
| 219 | default y | ||
| 220 | help | ||
| 221 | devmem is a small program that reads and writes from physical | ||
| 222 | memory using /dev/mem. | ||
| 223 | |||
| 224 | config EJECT | ||
| 225 | bool "eject" | ||
| 226 | default y | ||
| 227 | select PLATFORM_LINUX | ||
| 228 | help | ||
| 229 | Used to eject cdroms. (defaults to /dev/cdrom) | ||
| 230 | |||
| 231 | config FEATURE_EJECT_SCSI | ||
| 232 | bool "SCSI support" | ||
| 233 | default y | ||
| 234 | depends on EJECT | ||
| 235 | help | ||
| 236 | Add the -s option to eject, this allows to eject SCSI-Devices and | ||
| 237 | usb-storage devices. | ||
| 238 | |||
| 239 | config FBSPLASH | ||
| 240 | bool "fbsplash" | ||
| 241 | default y | ||
| 242 | select PLATFORM_LINUX | ||
| 243 | help | ||
| 244 | Shows splash image and progress bar on framebuffer device. | ||
| 245 | Can be used during boot phase of an embedded device. ~2kb. | ||
| 246 | Usage: | ||
| 247 | - use kernel option 'vga=xxx' or otherwise enable fb device. | ||
| 248 | - put somewhere fbsplash.cfg file and an image in .ppm format. | ||
| 249 | - $ setsid fbsplash [params] & | ||
| 250 | -c: hide cursor | ||
| 251 | -d /dev/fbN: framebuffer device (if not /dev/fb0) | ||
| 252 | -s path_to_image_file (can be "-" for stdin) | ||
| 253 | -i path_to_cfg_file (can be "-" for stdin) | ||
| 254 | -f path_to_fifo (can be "-" for stdin) | ||
| 255 | - if you want to run it only in presence of kernel parameter: | ||
| 256 | grep -q "fbsplash=on" </proc/cmdline && setsid fbsplash [params] & | ||
| 257 | - commands for fifo: | ||
| 258 | "NN" (ASCII decimal number) - percentage to show on progress bar | ||
| 259 | "exit" - well you guessed it | ||
| 260 | |||
| 261 | config FLASHCP | ||
| 262 | bool "flashcp" | ||
| 263 | default n # doesn't build on Ubuntu 8.04 | ||
| 264 | help | ||
| 265 | The flashcp binary, inspired by mtd-utils as of git head 5eceb74f7. | ||
| 266 | This utility is used to copy images into a MTD device. | ||
| 267 | |||
| 268 | config FLASH_LOCK | ||
| 269 | bool "flash_lock" | ||
| 270 | default n # doesn't build on Ubuntu 8.04 | ||
| 271 | help | ||
| 272 | The flash_lock binary from mtd-utils as of git head 5ec0c10d0. This | ||
| 273 | utility locks part or all of the flash device. | ||
| 274 | |||
| 275 | config FLASH_UNLOCK | ||
| 276 | bool "flash_unlock" | ||
| 277 | default n # doesn't build on Ubuntu 8.04 | ||
| 278 | help | ||
| 279 | The flash_unlock binary from mtd-utils as of git head 5ec0c10d0. This | ||
| 280 | utility unlocks part or all of the flash device. | ||
| 281 | |||
| 282 | config FLASH_ERASEALL | ||
| 283 | bool "flash_eraseall" | ||
| 284 | default n # doesn't build on Ubuntu 8.04 | ||
| 285 | help | ||
| 286 | The flash_eraseall binary from mtd-utils as of git head c4c6a59eb. | ||
| 287 | This utility is used to erase the whole MTD device. | ||
| 288 | |||
| 289 | config IONICE | ||
| 290 | bool "ionice" | ||
| 291 | default y | ||
| 292 | select PLATFORM_LINUX | ||
| 293 | help | ||
| 294 | Set/set program io scheduling class and priority | ||
| 295 | Requires kernel >= 2.6.13 | ||
| 296 | |||
| 297 | config INOTIFYD | ||
| 298 | bool "inotifyd" | ||
| 299 | default n # doesn't build on Knoppix 5 | ||
| 300 | help | ||
| 301 | Simple inotify daemon. Reports filesystem changes. Requires | ||
| 302 | kernel >= 2.6.13 | ||
| 303 | |||
| 304 | config LAST | ||
| 305 | bool "last" | ||
| 306 | default y | ||
| 307 | depends on FEATURE_WTMP | ||
| 308 | help | ||
| 309 | 'last' displays a list of the last users that logged into the system. | ||
| 310 | |||
| 311 | config FEATURE_LAST_FANCY | ||
| 312 | bool "Turn on output of extra information" | ||
| 313 | default y | ||
| 314 | depends on LAST | ||
| 315 | help | ||
| 316 | 'last' displays detailed information about the last users that | ||
| 317 | logged into the system (mimics sysvinit last). +900 bytes. | ||
| 318 | |||
| 319 | config HDPARM | ||
| 320 | bool "hdparm" | ||
| 321 | default y | ||
| 322 | select PLATFORM_LINUX | ||
| 323 | help | ||
| 324 | Get/Set hard drive parameters. Primarily intended for ATA | ||
| 325 | drives. Adds about 13k (or around 30k if you enable the | ||
| 326 | FEATURE_HDPARM_GET_IDENTITY option).... | ||
| 327 | |||
| 328 | config FEATURE_HDPARM_GET_IDENTITY | ||
| 329 | bool "Support obtaining detailed information directly from drives" | ||
| 330 | default y | ||
| 331 | depends on HDPARM | ||
| 332 | help | ||
| 333 | Enables the -I and -i options to obtain detailed information | ||
| 334 | directly from drives about their capabilities and supported ATA | ||
| 335 | feature set. If no device name is specified, hdparm will read | ||
| 336 | identify data from stdin. Enabling this option will add about 16k... | ||
| 337 | |||
| 338 | config FEATURE_HDPARM_HDIO_SCAN_HWIF | ||
| 339 | bool "Register an IDE interface (DANGEROUS)" | ||
| 340 | default y | ||
| 341 | depends on HDPARM | ||
| 342 | help | ||
| 343 | Enables the 'hdparm -R' option to register an IDE interface. | ||
| 344 | This is dangerous stuff, so you should probably say N. | ||
| 345 | |||
| 346 | config FEATURE_HDPARM_HDIO_UNREGISTER_HWIF | ||
| 347 | bool "Un-register an IDE interface (DANGEROUS)" | ||
| 348 | default y | ||
| 349 | depends on HDPARM | ||
| 350 | help | ||
| 351 | Enables the 'hdparm -U' option to un-register an IDE interface. | ||
| 352 | This is dangerous stuff, so you should probably say N. | ||
| 353 | |||
| 354 | config FEATURE_HDPARM_HDIO_DRIVE_RESET | ||
| 355 | bool "Perform device reset (DANGEROUS)" | ||
| 356 | default y | ||
| 357 | depends on HDPARM | ||
| 358 | help | ||
| 359 | Enables the 'hdparm -w' option to perform a device reset. | ||
| 360 | This is dangerous stuff, so you should probably say N. | ||
| 361 | |||
| 362 | config FEATURE_HDPARM_HDIO_TRISTATE_HWIF | ||
| 363 | bool "Tristate device for hotswap (DANGEROUS)" | ||
| 364 | default y | ||
| 365 | depends on HDPARM | ||
| 366 | help | ||
| 367 | Enables the 'hdparm -x' option to tristate device for hotswap, | ||
| 368 | and the '-b' option to get/set bus state. This is dangerous | ||
| 369 | stuff, so you should probably say N. | ||
| 370 | |||
| 371 | config FEATURE_HDPARM_HDIO_GETSET_DMA | ||
| 372 | bool "Get/set using_dma flag" | ||
| 373 | default y | ||
| 374 | depends on HDPARM | ||
| 375 | help | ||
| 376 | Enables the 'hdparm -d' option to get/set using_dma flag. | ||
| 377 | |||
| 378 | config MAKEDEVS | ||
| 379 | bool "makedevs" | ||
| 380 | default y | ||
| 381 | help | ||
| 382 | 'makedevs' is a utility used to create a batch of devices with | ||
| 383 | one command. | ||
| 384 | |||
| 385 | There are two choices for command line behaviour, the interface | ||
| 386 | as used by LEAF/Linux Router Project, or a device table file. | ||
| 387 | |||
| 388 | 'leaf' is traditionally what busybox follows, it allows multiple | ||
| 389 | devices of a particluar type to be created per command. | ||
| 390 | e.g. /dev/hda[0-9] | ||
| 391 | Device properties are passed as command line arguments. | ||
| 392 | |||
| 393 | 'table' reads device properties from a file or stdin, allowing | ||
| 394 | a batch of unrelated devices to be made with one command. | ||
| 395 | User/group names are allowed as an alternative to uid/gid. | ||
| 396 | |||
| 397 | choice | ||
| 398 | prompt "Choose makedevs behaviour" | ||
| 399 | depends on MAKEDEVS | ||
| 400 | default FEATURE_MAKEDEVS_TABLE | ||
| 401 | |||
| 402 | config FEATURE_MAKEDEVS_LEAF | ||
| 403 | bool "leaf" | ||
| 404 | |||
| 405 | config FEATURE_MAKEDEVS_TABLE | ||
| 406 | bool "table" | ||
| 407 | |||
| 408 | endchoice | ||
| 409 | |||
| 410 | config MAN | ||
| 411 | bool "man" | ||
| 412 | default y | ||
| 413 | help | ||
| 414 | Format and display manual pages. | ||
| 415 | |||
| 416 | config MICROCOM | ||
| 417 | bool "microcom" | ||
| 418 | default y | ||
| 419 | help | ||
| 420 | The poor man's minicom utility for chatting with serial port devices. | ||
| 421 | |||
| 422 | config MOUNTPOINT | ||
| 423 | bool "mountpoint" | ||
| 424 | default y | ||
| 425 | help | ||
| 426 | mountpoint checks if the directory is a mountpoint. | ||
| 427 | |||
| 428 | config MT | ||
| 429 | bool "mt" | ||
| 430 | default y | ||
| 431 | help | ||
| 432 | mt is used to control tape devices. You can use the mt utility | ||
| 433 | to advance or rewind a tape past a specified number of archive | ||
| 434 | files on the tape. | ||
| 435 | |||
| 436 | config RAIDAUTORUN | ||
| 437 | bool "raidautorun" | ||
| 438 | default y | ||
| 439 | select PLATFORM_LINUX | ||
| 440 | help | ||
| 441 | raidautorun tells the kernel md driver to | ||
| 442 | search and start RAID arrays. | ||
| 443 | |||
| 444 | config READAHEAD | ||
| 445 | bool "readahead" | ||
| 446 | default y | ||
| 447 | depends on LFS | ||
| 448 | select PLATFORM_LINUX | ||
| 449 | help | ||
| 450 | Preload the files listed on the command line into RAM cache so that | ||
| 451 | subsequent reads on these files will not block on disk I/O. | ||
| 452 | |||
| 453 | This applet just calls the readahead(2) system call on each file. | ||
| 454 | It is mainly useful in system startup scripts to preload files | ||
| 455 | or executables before they are used. When used at the right time | ||
| 456 | (in particular when a CPU bound process is running) it can | ||
| 457 | significantly speed up system startup. | ||
| 458 | |||
| 459 | As readahead(2) blocks until each file has been read, it is best to | ||
| 460 | run this applet as a background job. | ||
| 461 | |||
| 462 | config RUNLEVEL | ||
| 463 | bool "runlevel" | ||
| 464 | default y | ||
| 465 | depends on FEATURE_UTMP | ||
| 466 | help | ||
| 467 | find the current and previous system runlevel. | ||
| 468 | |||
| 469 | This applet uses utmp but does not rely on busybox supporing | ||
| 470 | utmp on purpose. It is used by e.g. emdebian via /etc/init.d/rc. | ||
| 471 | |||
| 472 | config RX | ||
| 473 | bool "rx" | ||
| 474 | default y | ||
| 475 | select PLATFORM_LINUX | ||
| 476 | help | ||
| 477 | Receive files using the Xmodem protocol. | ||
| 478 | |||
| 479 | config SETSID | ||
| 480 | bool "setsid" | ||
| 481 | default y | ||
| 482 | help | ||
| 483 | setsid runs a program in a new session | ||
| 484 | |||
| 485 | config STRINGS | ||
| 486 | bool "strings" | ||
| 487 | default y | ||
| 488 | help | ||
| 489 | strings prints the printable character sequences for each file | ||
| 490 | specified. | ||
| 491 | |||
| 492 | config TIME | ||
| 493 | bool "time" | ||
| 494 | default y | ||
| 495 | help | ||
| 496 | The time command runs the specified program with the given arguments. | ||
| 497 | When the command finishes, time writes a message to standard output | ||
| 498 | giving timing statistics about this program run. | ||
| 499 | |||
| 500 | config TIMEOUT | ||
| 501 | bool "timeout" | ||
| 502 | default y | ||
| 503 | help | ||
| 504 | Runs a program and watches it. If it does not terminate in | ||
| 505 | specified number of seconds, it is sent a signal. | ||
| 506 | |||
| 507 | config TTYSIZE | ||
| 508 | bool "ttysize" | ||
| 509 | default y | ||
| 510 | help | ||
| 511 | A replacement for "stty size". Unlike stty, can report only width, | ||
| 512 | only height, or both, in any order. It also does not complain on | ||
| 513 | error, but returns default 80x24. | ||
| 514 | Usage in shell scripts: width=`ttysize w`. | ||
| 515 | |||
| 516 | config VOLNAME | ||
| 517 | bool "volname" | ||
| 518 | default y | ||
| 519 | help | ||
| 520 | Prints a CD-ROM volume name. | ||
| 521 | |||
| 522 | config WATCHDOG | ||
| 523 | bool "watchdog" | ||
| 524 | default y | ||
| 525 | select PLATFORM_LINUX | ||
| 526 | help | ||
| 527 | The watchdog utility is used with hardware or software watchdog | ||
| 528 | device drivers. It opens the specified watchdog device special file | ||
| 529 | and periodically writes a magic character to the device. If the | ||
| 530 | watchdog applet ever fails to write the magic character within a | ||
| 531 | certain amount of time, the watchdog device assumes the system has | ||
| 532 | hung, and will cause the hardware to reboot. | ||
| 533 | |||
| 534 | endmenu | 10 | endmenu |
