Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 23:53:35 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@FreeBSD.ORG> To: witr@rwwa.com (Robert Withrow) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SIGDANGER Message-ID: <199804280453.XAA03316@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <199804280030.UAA06099@spooky.rwwa.com> from Robert Withrow at "Apr 27, 98 08:30:38 pm"
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Robert Withrow said: > > dyson@freebsd.org said: > :- We do need to adopt an extended signal set, and I think that someone > :- else has already developed it. SIGDANGER could be valuable. > > I've always considered this to be one of the most brain dead > mis features of AIX, since it invariably picks the process you > least want have killed, like the compiler that doing part > of your three-hour integration build. Or your emacs. Please > don't add this to freebsd. > When virtual memory gets low, FreeBSD will kill processes anyway :-(. -- 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-hackers" in the body of the message
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