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Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 13:15:35 +0200
From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Cc: Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav <des@des.no>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
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Quoting Alfred Perlstein, who wrote on Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 03:19:02AM -0700 ..
> * Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav <des@des.no> [071004 03:01] wrote:
> > Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> writes:
> > > Do you have:
> > >
> > > a) Evidence or a paper to prove that this is a bad idea?
> > 
> > I need evidence or a paper to prove that it is a bad idea to allow a
> > userland process to hold the CPU indefinitely?
> > 
> > > b) A helpful suggestion?
> > 
> > Why don't you tell us what you're actually trying to do, so we can tell
> > you how to do it.
> > 
> > > c) An obvious understanding of the problem?
> > 
> > I'll show you mine if you show me yours.
> 
> It's not worth my time to engage someone with your mind set, you
> posses neither the technical nor interpersonal skill to be useful
> to me.

Gentlemen... please?

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Wilko Bulte				wilko@FreeBSD.org