Re: IDE freeze for seconds

Drago Goricanec (drago@king.otsd.ts.fujitsu.co.jp)
Thu, 03 Dec 1998 17:48:18 +0900


On Wed, 2 Dec 1998 23:58:16 +0000, Roeland Th. Jansen wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 02, 1998 at 03:25:24PM -0000, Simon Kenyon wrote:
> > On 02-Dec-98 Alex Buell wrote:
> > > What is the first thing that ceases when you spin down a planet? That's
> > > right, gravity. Everything not tied down would just fly out into space,
> > > and that includes the atmosphere. Simple.
> >
> > i don't see a smiley, but i have to assume that that was a little joke! right?
>
> well, the problem is that... it's true. so don't use ower management on the
> earth spin...

And don't forget, the earth is really flat.

<Sigh>

Drago

[Obligatory Kernel comment]
I think proper signal handling with threads need to be one of the
items on the agenda for 2.3 development.

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