From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 27 21:55:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA12293 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 21:55:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA12234 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 21:54:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA03316; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 23:53:35 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) Message-Id: <199804280453.XAA03316@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: SIGDANGER In-Reply-To: <199804280030.UAA06099@spooky.rwwa.com> from Robert Withrow at "Apr 27, 98 08:30:38 pm" To: witr@rwwa.com (Robert Withrow) Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 23:53:35 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Robert Withrow said: > > dyson@freebsd.org said: > :- We do need to adopt an extended signal set, and I think that someone > :- else has already developed it. SIGDANGER could be valuable. > > I've always considered this to be one of the most brain dead > mis features of AIX, since it invariably picks the process you > least want have killed, like the compiler that doing part > of your three-hour integration build. Or your emacs. Please > don't add this to freebsd. > When virtual memory gets low, FreeBSD will kill processes anyway :-(. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message