From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 14 17:40:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.its.rpi.edu (mail1.its.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 528BC14CF8 for ; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 17:40:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail1.its.rpi.edu (8.8.8/8.8.6) with ESMTP id UAA40542; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 20:39:30 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <199907142218.PAA96575@apollo.backplane.com> References: <199907142127.OAA01681@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 20:39:28 -0400 To: Matthew Dillon , Jason Thorpe From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Swap overcommit (was Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2)) Cc: tech-userlevel@netbsd.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 3:18 PM -0700 7/14/99, Matthew Dillon wrote: > This conversation is getting silly. Do you actually believe > that an operating system can magically protect itself 100% > from armloads of hostile users? > > Give me a break. You people are crazy. If you have something > worthwhile to say i'll listen, but these "the sky is falling!" > arguments are idiotic. Hmm. I didn't notice any sky-is-falling arguments in this thread, so I finally started looking around to see why such nasty replies keep showing up to what I considered reasonable questions... So, I finally looked back into the "replacement for grep" thread (which I have been ignoring ever since it stopped talking about the grep replacement), and I see this topic is being thrashed to death over there. I still think there could be some useful discussion on what I was *trying* to talk about here, but I guess it will have to wait until some other time given how exasperated people are getting. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message