I wrote: > > I deduce that a fail-safe application must scanf overcommit_memory, > > warn the user and waitpid.
Alan Cox wrote: > If you are building a fail safe system you need to look a bit beyond out > of memory handling settings - power supplies, failover, fault tolerance > requirements, error detection (eg ECC ram), raid arrays over > non-electrically conductive links etc. If you lived here, you'ld be worried about seismic-electric impact on your HDD and data ;) So SIGKILL is not the hardest problem to be solved. Maybe it is time to write an avoidoomd. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
