On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 03:09:00PM -0600, Nathan Lynch wrote: > > > 5) offlining the last running cpu in the system :) > > > > Just because I'm mostly ignorant, what's the correct behavior? For > > example, the atttriute to offline goes away, is not changeable, etc. > > Easy to test definitely. :) > > The write to /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online should return EBUSY. Hi Nathan, I just got around to trying this and I figure I'm doing it wrong. Capturing the return ($?) from echo is either a 0 or 1, which makes sense, so I figure I'm not capturing the correct thing to see if EBUSY is returned. How do I do that? Thanks, Mark
