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From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
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On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Jim C. Nasby wrote:

> It's extremely disappointing that you can't turn this off. I've been
> bashing linux for months now about how they think it's OK to kill random
> processes. But at least they'll let you turn it off.

It's extremely disappointing that you haven't submitted patches yet,
particularly when you have so many testers lined up. :-)

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