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Date:      Sun, 16 Mar 2003 21:15:35 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To:        Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
Cc:        Robert Drehmel <robert@zoot.drehmel.com>, 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>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0303162022110.7435-100000@root.org>
References:  <20030315064724.GA559@zoot.drehmel.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0303162022110.7435-100000@root.org>

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* Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> [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.'

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