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Mike Galbraith wrote:

> 
> That sounds suspiciously similar to my scenario, but mine requires a 
> third element to trigger.
> 
> <scritch scritch scritch>
> 
> What about this?  In both your senario and mine, X is running low on 
> cash while doing work at the request of a client right?  Charge for it.  
> If X is lower on cash than the guy he's working for, pick the client's 
> pocket... take the remainder of your slice from his sleep_avg for your 
> trouble.  If you're not in_interrupt(), nothing's free.  Similar to 
> Robinhood, but you take from the rich, and keep it :)  He's probably 
> going straight to the bank after he wakes you anyway, so he likely won't 
> even miss it.  Instead of backboost of overflow, which can cause nasty 
> problems, you could try backtheft.


How is this different from back-boost?