Re: [PATCH, v10 3/3] cgroups: introduce timer slack controller

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 17:11 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> For a while people were promoting the idea that its good to be lenient
> in what you accept as input and strict in what you send out. I think
> people are starting to realize that was a horrid mistake since now
> they're getting utter crap and people don't even know what right is
> anymore. 

Since different apps might have treated similar non-conformant input
differently and now no single behaviour is correct.

I think either dhowells or dwmw2 had a good blog post on that a while
back.
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