Re: 2.5.68-mm2

From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: bcrl@redhat.com, akpm@digeo.com, mbligh@aracnet.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: 2.5.68-mm2
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 11:20:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030425112042.37493d02.rddunlap@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1030425135538.16623C-100000@gatekeeper.tmr.com>

On Fri, 25 Apr 2003 13:56:31 -0400 (EDT) Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> wrote:

| On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
| 
| > On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 04:24:56PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
| > > Of course reasonable way may mean that bash does some things a bit slower,
| > > but given that the whole thing works well in most cases anyway, I think
| > > the kernel handling the situation is preferable.
| > 
| > Eh?  It makes bash _faster_ for all cases of starting up a child process.  
| > And it even works on 2.4 kernels.
| 
| The point is that even if bash is fixed it's desirable to address the
| issue in the kernel, other applications may well misbehave as well.

So when would this ever end?

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~Randy