Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758491AbZANEYi (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:24:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755498AbZANEYW (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:24:22 -0500 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:56182 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755242AbZANEYV (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:24:21 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: Evgeniy Polyakov Cc: David Rientjes , Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: Linux killed Kenny, bastard! In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:35:02 +0300." <20090113233502.GA31490@ioremap.net> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <20090112231728.GA23803@ioremap.net> <20090113085244.GA13796@ioremap.net> <20090113115408.GA22289@ioremap.net> <20090113121510.68a55fe9@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20090113122904.GC25011@ioremap.net> <20090113214627.GC27227@ioremap.net> <20090113233502.GA31490@ioremap.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1231907037_3915P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:23:57 -0500 Message-ID: <6507.1231907037@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1257 Lines: 38 --==_Exmh_1231907037_3915P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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? --==_Exmh_1231907037_3915P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFJbWjdcC3lWbTT17ARAlmhAJ9iEwYzN114fXPd7ZbSmWXvjt+WgACfQQqu gZchyflXHKOQADhtCRf3UnY= =Iyr9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1231907037_3915P-- -- 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/