01-25-2008
How does NORET_TYPE works ?
Hi,
I was looking at the panic() code in linux kernel which is defined as:
51 /**
52 * panic - halt the system
53 * @fmt: The text string to print
54 *
55 * Display a message, then perform cleanups.
56 *
57 * This function never returns.
58 */
59
60 NORET_TYPE void panic(const char * fmt, ...)
where, NORET_TYPE is declared as
/*
753 * Ok, these declarations are also in <linux/kernel.h> but none of the
754 * ext3 source programs needs to include it so they are duplicated here.
755 */
# define NORET_TYPE /**/ <====
Please help me in understanding a #defined variable(NORET_TYPE here) which is not defined to anything.
I know that panic() function was designed in this way to not to return anything{in case of panic,there won't be anyone to catch the return value from panic() },but how does this work.
i think a program in user land having a #defined variable which is left blank will throw compile time error.how this is implemented in linux kernel ?
I don't know much about C,hence please excuse me if this is a stupid querry .
~amit
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CTRLALTDEL(8) System Administration CTRLALTDEL(8)
NAME
ctrlaltdel - set the function of the Ctrl-Alt-Del combination
SYNOPSIS
ctrlaltdel hard|soft
DESCRIPTION
Based on examination of the linux/kernel/sys.c code, it is clear that there are two supported functions that the Ctrl-Alt-Del sequence can
perform: a hard reset, which immediately reboots the computer without calling sync(2) and without any other preparation; and a soft reset,
which sends the SIGINT (interrupt) signal to the init process (this is always the process with PID 1). If this option is used, the init(8)
program must support this feature. Since there are now several init(8) programs in the Linux community, please consult the documentation
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ctrlaltdel is usually used in the /etc/rc.local file.
FILES
/etc/rc.local
SEE ALSO
simpleinit(8), init(8)
AUTHOR
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AVAILABILITY
The ctrlaltdel command is part of the util-linux package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
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