Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 23:43:56 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Noriyuki Soda <soda@sra.co.jp> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>, "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.ORG>, bright@rush.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jon@oaktree.co.uk, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2) Message-ID: <378CA22C.E5537F7A@newsguy.com> References: <199907132127.OAA80947@apollo.backplane.com> <199907132139.GAA14890@srapc342.sra.co.jp>
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Noriyuki Soda wrote: > > Running out of swap can be easily done by normal user privilege. > Non-overcommiting system can run important application on the system > which has a normal user, because it never lose critical data, even if > a user on the system make a mistake. (The application might stop, > but it never lose data.) > > 4.4BSD derived system cannot do this, and have to use different > machine for such applications. Incorrect. We can set *limits* to the users, so they won't be able to crash down the system. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Would you like to go out with me?" "I'd love to." "Oh, well, n... err... would you?... ahh... huh... what do I do next?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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