From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 25 11:13:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA05038 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 May 1998 11:13:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@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 LAA05020 for ; Mon, 25 May 1998 11:13:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA10545; Mon, 25 May 1998 13:13:16 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) Message-Id: <199805251813.NAA10545@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: Change of idprio between 2.2.5 an 2.2.6 In-Reply-To: <199805250718.JAA05080@tiger.matematik.su.se> from Torbjorn Granlund at "May 25, 98 09:18:04 am" To: tege@matematik.su.se (Torbjorn Granlund) Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 13:13:16 -0500 (EST) Cc: questions@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-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Torbjorn Granlund said: > > Why was this change made? A user-accessible means of starting a truly > low-priority proess was an important feature. (No, `nice' does not do > that.) > Denial of service bug in the FreeBSD kernel code. The work-around for now is to disable idprio. -- 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-questions" in the body of the message