On Thursday 27 May 2010, Alan Cox wrote: > > > Heck, for all I care, simply SIGKILL the thing and report it once the > > > user starts looking at his screen again. > > > > Provide incentive for Joe Clicker to improve his app, instead of cope > > with the shit he created. > > That isn't helpful. But if you feel like that I suggest you run with your > memory management protection disabled, it's really on there to deal with > crap code and its giving the wrong incentives. Come to think of it > you might want to remove your seatbelts and any safety catches or airbags > - it only encourages carelessness. > > The reality is you need a sane, generic, race free way to express your > requirements (eg for hard RT) and ditto for constraining the expression > (for 'crapplications') > > Arguing that you don't need to do this isn't useful. Android has > demonstrated a need to do this. RT has a need to do some of this. > Virtualisation wants elements of this etc. > > The question is how you do it right. I violently agree, thanks Alan! Rafael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
