On Thursday, 5 July 2007 17:03, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 05:04:47PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Thursday, 5 July 2007 16:39, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > Why? > > > > You have processes that don't react to signals, because some other user land > > task is misbehaving. I'd call that ugly at the very least. > > It already happens with, say, NFS. Don't think about it in terms of a > userland task misbehaving - think of it in terms of a resource becoming > unavailable. I think there's a difference between a userland task playing the role of a resource and a "real" external resource the kernel doesn't control. IMO, userland tasks should not have the power to affect each other as though they were parts of the kernel. Greetings, Rafael -- "Premature optimization is the root of all evil." - Donald Knuth _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
