From owner-cvs-all Sun Mar 16 21:15:39 2003 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 913CC37B401; Sun, 16 Mar 2003 21:15:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A3B643F93; Sun, 16 Mar 2003 21:15:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@elvis.mu.org) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1192) id 5E52B2ED40A; Sun, 16 Mar 2003 21:15:35 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 21:15:35 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Nate Lawson Cc: Robert Drehmel , src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm ... SIGDANGER Message-ID: <20030317051535.GM4145@elvis.mu.org> References: <20030315064724.GA559@zoot.drehmel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Nate Lawson [030316 20:24] wrote: > On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, Robert Drehmel wrote: > > Or let's bind a default importance value to vnodes, > > initialized by a global file at system startup and always > > modifiable through a system call (used by the reimp > > utility) :-) > > *MUAAAAGH!* *clunk* *whir!* > > -Nate > > (i.e. you just gave Ken Thompson a heart attack, he fell down dead, and > now he is rapidly spinning in his grave) Actually reimplementing the sticky bit on executables to make that mark them as less viable in OOM situations seems like a good idea, there's also the idea of using extended attributes in the filesystem to do it. It does make a lot of sense. -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message