From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 14:38:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Alan Cox Cc: Jim Gettys , Andi Kleen , Ingo Molnar , Andrea Arcangeli , Rik van Riel , Byron Stanoszek , MM mailing list , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > 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 The problem is that there is no way to keep track of them afterwards. So the process that gave X the bitmap dies. What now? Are we going to depend on X un-counting the resources? I'd prefer just X having a higher "mm nice level" or something. Linus -- 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/