Re: Offtopic: (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] Native POSIX Thread Library 0.1)

Mark Veltzer
2002-09-25T19:12:44Z

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On Wednesday 25 September 2002 22:04, you wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Mark Mielke wrote:
> > I missed this one. Does this mean that fork() bombs will have limited
> > effect on root? :-)
>
> Indeed. A user can easily run 100 while(1) {} loops, but to the
> other users in the system it'll feel just like 1 loop...

Rik!

This is terrific!!! How come something like this was not merged in earlier
?!? This seems like an absolute neccesity!!! I'm willing to test it if that
is what is needed to get it merged. What does Linus and others feel about
this and most importantly when will see it in ? (Hopefully in this
development cycle).

Regards,
Mark
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