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To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
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Subject: Re: Patch to protect process from pageout killing 
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In message <200303280910.32307.wes@softweyr.com>, Wes Peters writes:

>I've reworked my patch to use the madvise(2) syscall, like the original 
>4.x patch did.  I've even documented it, in a man page of all places.  
>Please see attached patch.  If nobody objects, I'll commit sometime this 
>weekend.

I'm still not certain about the inheritance of this, do we want/is it
inherited ?

Also, thinking about it, on at least a handful of machines I would
have more use for MADV_KILLMEFIRST having the exact opposite
behaviour.

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