Magic numbers of the Linux reboot() system call
Just a guess, but those numbers look more interesting in hex:
672274793 = 0x28121969
85072278 = 0x05121996
369367448 = 0x16041998
537993216 = 0x20112000
Developers' or developers' children's birthdays?
Regarding finding the syscall implementation, I did a git grep -n LINUX_REBOOT_MAGIC2
and found the definition in kernel/sys.c. The symbol sys_reboot
is generated by the SYSCALL_DEFINE4(reboot, ...
gubbins, I suspect.
It's the birthday of Linus Torvalds (The developer of the Linux kernel and the Git version control) and his 3 daughters. works as magic numbers to reboot the system.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds