From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 13:56:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Davidsen Subject: Re: 2.5.68-mm2 In-Reply-To: <20030424163334.A12180@redhat.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Benjamin LaHaise Cc: Andrew Morton , "Martin J. Bligh" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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. -- bill davidsen CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979. -- 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