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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> What feels wrong to me is: kill a process and - in the case where 
> that process is restartable or expendable - suggest to the admin 
> that "everything is fine, we handled it just fine".

That is absolutely _not_ how any real-life sysadmin would ever react.

				Linus

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