From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Zijlstra Subject: Re: [PATCH, v10 3/3] cgroups: introduce timer slack controller Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:18:33 +0200 Message-ID: <1318864713.4172.59.camel@twins> References: <20111017032232.GA4816@srcf.ucam.org> <4E9BBB6D.4050004@linux.intel.com> <1318837019.6594.29.camel@twins> <20111017124647.GA12838@srcf.ucam.org> <1318856786.4172.22.camel@twins> <20111017141147.GA14581@srcf.ucam.org> <1318861707.4172.32.camel@twins> <20111017144013.GA15447@srcf.ucam.org> <1318862969.4172.45.camel@twins> <20111017145952.GB15769@srcf.ucam.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Return-path: Sender: linux-api-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Matthew Garrett Cc: Thomas Gleixner , Arjan van de Ven , Lennart Poettering , Andrew Morton , "Kirill A. Shutemov" , Paul Menage , Li Zefan , containers-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org, jacob.jun.pan-VuQAYsv1563Yd54FQh9/CA@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Matt Helsley , linux-api-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Kay Sievers , harald-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org, david-o55+BOBDEFg@public.gmane.org, greg-U8xfFu+wG4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-api@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 17:11 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > For a while people were promoting the idea that its good to be lenient > in what you accept as input and strict in what you send out. I think > people are starting to realize that was a horrid mistake since now > they're getting utter crap and people don't even know what right is > anymore. Since different apps might have treated similar non-conformant input differently and now no single behaviour is correct. I think either dhowells or dwmw2 had a good blog post on that a while back.