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Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 17:31:17 -0500
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make highly niced processes run only when idle
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On Friday, December 7, 2001, at 11:39 , Robert Love wrote:

> What do you think will happen when an "idle" task holds a 
> resource or is
> otherwise a producer for something a higher priority, running, task
> needs?

One of two things:
	1) The higher priority task will no longer be runnable; or
	2) We gave enough rope to hang yourself, and, well, you did.


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