On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Antonio Mancina wrote: > In this way there's no way for the forked tasks to harmfully behave... > the sum of the executions will not overcome the original timeslice. > Please correct me if I'm wrong. You're absolutely right. The division of the timeslice prevents a process from forking a gazillion processes that all use less than one timeslice - starving the rest of the system. Note that if a benign process is forked (say, /bin/ls), the parent process gets the remaining time in the child's time slice back when the child process exits... -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
