Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 16:07:02 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@tcoip.com.br>, Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org>, Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.org>, David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm ... SIGDANGER Message-ID: <20030314160313.O4480@odysseus.silby.com> In-Reply-To: <p05200f2eba97fc3b6b96@[128.113.24.47]> References: <8023.1047662161@critter.freebsd.dk> <p05200f2bba97e5a92150@[128.113.24.47]> <20030314140414.V4480@odysseus.silby.com> <p05200f2cba97ef395f0e@[128.113.24.47]> <20030314152510.A4480@odysseus.silby.com> <p05200f2eba97fc3b6b96@[128.113.24.47]>
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On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > Almost all of the suggestions that have come forward are good > ideas to do *in addition* to SIGDANGER, but SIGDANGER provides > a program with a way to SPECIFICALLY address this very SPECIFIC > issue, without having to care what UID it got, or what nice The problem with SIGDANGER is that only two programs will use it: 1. lpd at RPI. 2. The forkbomb someone will post to bugtraq the day after we add the feature. I fully agree that there needs to be a way to prioritize processes. However, adding an extra signal is just not the way to do it. If we want a manual system like that, let's just add a "don't kill" bit to the proc structure which can be set through nice or some other utility by the system administrator. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-src" in the body of the message
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