Re: Linux killed Kenny, bastard!

From: Valdis . Kletnieks
Date: Tue Jan 13 2009 - 23:24:40 EST


On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:35:02 +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov said:

> It is exactly the purpose of the patch: to kill what is requested to be
> killed.
>
> I wonder how do you expect users to guess via libastral that even
> adjusted score does not work, since it happens that task is so special,
> that it can not be killed :)

What does your patch do if one user has a process 'foo' that they're willing
to have die first, and a process 'bar' that absolutely can't be killed..

Meanwhile, another user has a 'must die first' process 'bar', and a 'must not
die' process 'foo'.

Methinks your patch needs libastral as well?

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