Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261912AbTITROY (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Sep 2003 13:14:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261914AbTITROY (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Sep 2003 13:14:24 -0400 Received: from fluent2.pyramid.net ([206.100.220.213]:12417 "EHLO fluent2.pyramid.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261912AbTITROX (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Sep 2003 13:14:23 -0400 X-Not-Legal-Opinion: IANAL I am not a lawyer X-For-Entertainment-Purposes-Only: True X-message-flag: Please update my contact to send plain-text mail only. Message-Id: <5.2.1.1.0.20030920101222.01123c28@fluent2.pyramid.net> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.1 Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 10:14:19 -0700 To: Larry McVoy , Andrea Arcangeli From: Stephen Satchell Subject: Flames (was: Fix for wrong OOM killer trigger?) Cc: Larry McVoy , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20030920151332.GA18387@work.bitmover.com> References: <20030920142314.GA1338@velociraptor.random> <20030919191613.36750de3.bless@tm.uka.de> <20030919192544.GC1312@velociraptor.random> <20030919203538.D1919@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20030919200117.GE1312@velociraptor.random> <20030919205220.GA19830@work.bitmover.com> <20030920033153.GA1452@velociraptor.random> <20030920043026.GA10836@work.bitmover.com> <20030920142314.GA1338@velociraptor.random> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1039 Lines: 26 At 08:13 AM 9/20/2003 -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: >Really? So where's the source to the BIOS of your machine? Your drive >firmware? Do you drive a car? Turn on a microwave? Use a cell phone? And when you start flaming, PLEASE CHANGE THE SUBJECT LINE! I am EXCEEDINGLY INTERESTED in finding a solution to the killing-the-wrong-task problem, because I have 50 Linux boxes that do it all the time. ANY discussion to that topic deserves my time. Discussions of signature blocks does not -- nothing bores me more, in fact. So either post on topic, or change the subject line. I'm saying "please." -- Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. -- Douglas Adams - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/