RE: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init

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> That's not the OOM killer however, but init dying because it
> couldn't get the memory it needed to satisfy a page fault or
> somesuch...

Ehrm, I would like to re-state that it still would be nice if
some mechanism got introduced which enables one to set certain
processes to "cannot be killed".
For example: I would hate it it the UPS monitoring daemon got
killed for obvious reasons :o)
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