On Thursday, 5 July 2007 17:03, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 05:04:47PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Thursday, 5 July 2007 16:39, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > Why? > > > > You have processes that don't react to signals, because some other user land > > task is misbehaving. I'd call that ugly at the very least. > > It already happens with, say, NFS. Don't think about it in terms of a > userland task misbehaving - think of it in terms of a resource becoming > unavailable.
I think there's a difference between a userland task playing the role of a resource and a "real" external resource the kernel doesn't control. IMO, userland tasks should not have the power to affect each other as though they were parts of the kernel. Greetings, Rafael -- "Premature optimization is the root of all evil." - Donald Knuth - 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/
