From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 22:28:38 +0100 (BST) In-Reply-To: <200010092121.OAA01924@pachyderm.pa.dec.com> from "Jim Gettys" at Oct 09, 2000 02:21:05 PM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Jim Gettys Cc: Andi Kleen , Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , Andrea Arcangeli , Rik van Riel , Byron Stanoszek , MM mailing list , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > Sounds like one needs in addition some mechanism for servers to "charge" clients for > consumption. X certainly knows on behalf of which connection resources > are created; the OS could then transfer this back to the appropriate client > (at least when on machine). Definitely - and this is present in some non Unix OS's. We do pass credentials across AF_UNIX sockets so the mechanism is notionally there to provide the credentials to X, just not to use them -- 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.eu.org/Linux-MM/