From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 11:20:42 -0700 From: "Randy.Dunlap" Subject: Re: 2.5.68-mm2 Message-Id: <20030425112042.37493d02.rddunlap@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20030424163334.A12180@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Bill Davidsen Cc: bcrl@redhat.com, akpm@digeo.com, mbligh@aracnet.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Fri, 25 Apr 2003 13:56:31 -0400 (EDT) Bill Davidsen 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? -- ~Randy -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org