Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 10:43:56 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Peter Childs <pjchilds@imforei.apana.org.au> Cc: terry@lambert.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Preach it (was Some recent changes to GENERIC) Message-ID: <3731.837161036@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 12 Jul 1996 17:54:17 %2B0930." <199607120824.RAA01082@al.imforei.apana.org.au>
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In message <199607120824.RAA01082@al.imforei.apana.org.au>, Peter Childs writes
:
>Terry Lambert wrote...
>
>: I believe that when faced with the task of promoting change, there
>: are two choices: evolutionary and revolutionary. Microsoft and
>: Novell have done the evolutionary, and we are far from satisfied
>: with their results. It is time to try the revolutionary.
>
> If you have some spare time many of us would be interested in
> some visionary ideas... new ways of looking at things and others
> visions can flavor others developments (perhaps for the better!)
I agree, how about this for a revolution:
I have this idea about putting tcl in the kernel. I can imagine some
rather interesting possibilities this would give us.
Imagine all the "policies" we have, they could be boot-time configurable.
When we run out of vm for instance, If we had tcl in the
kernel the sysad could do something like:
proc out_of_vm {} {
foreach p in [procs] {
if {[proc argv0 $p] == "emacs"} {
proc kill -6 $p
}
}
}
I'm almost kidding :-)
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