From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: 2.5.68-mm2
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 13:56:31 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1030425135538.16623C-100000@gatekeeper.tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030424163334.A12180@redhat.com>
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.
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CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
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Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-23 8:20 2.5.68-mm2 Andrew Morton
2003-04-23 9:59 ` 2.5.68-mm2 William Lee Irwin III
2003-04-23 16:50 ` 2.5.68-mm2 Robert Love
2003-04-23 16:57 ` 2.5.68-mm2 Martin J. Bligh
2003-04-23 17:11 ` 2.5.68-mm2 Robert Love
2003-04-24 9:14 ` 2.5.68-mm2 William Lee Irwin III
2003-04-23 12:08 ` 2.5.68-mm2 Ed Tomlinson
2003-04-23 12:37 ` 2.5.68-mm2 William Lee Irwin III
2003-04-23 14:25 ` 2.5.68-mm2 Martin J. Bligh
2003-04-23 14:51 ` 2.5.68-mm2 Martin J. Bligh
2003-04-23 15:14 ` 2.5.68-mm2 Alex Tomas
2003-04-23 21:46 ` 2.5.68-mm2 Andrew Morton
2003-04-23 21:47 ` 2.5.68-mm2 Martin J. Bligh
2003-04-24 3:39 ` 2.5.68-mm2 Benjamin LaHaise
2003-04-24 21:13 ` 2.5.68-mm2 Martin J. Bligh
2003-04-24 23:13 ` objrmap (was 2.5.68-mm2) Martin J. Bligh
2003-04-24 3:36 ` 2.5.68-mm2 Benjamin LaHaise
2003-04-24 20:24 ` 2.5.68-mm2 Bill Davidsen
2003-04-24 20:33 ` 2.5.68-mm2 Benjamin LaHaise
2003-04-25 17:56 ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
2003-04-25 18:20 ` 2.5.68-mm2 Randy.Dunlap
2003-04-25 18:27 ` 2.5.68-mm2 Robert Love
2003-04-25 18:49 ` 2.5.68-mm2 Martin J. Bligh
2003-04-26 10:34 ` 2.5.68-mm2 Bill Davidsen
2003-04-26 15:34 ` 2.5.68-mm2 Martin J. Bligh
2003-05-01 6:19 ` [BUG] 2.5.68-mm2 and list.h Alexander Hoogerhuis
2003-05-01 6:31 ` Andrew Morton
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