On 21 Jul 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-07-21 at 10:10, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote:
> > On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > Make swapoff -a return -ENOMEM
> > >
> > > I've not done this on the basis that this is root specific stupidity and
> > > generally shouldnt be protected against
> >
> > Recommended reading: MIT's Magazin of Innovation Technology Review,
> > August 2002 issue, cover story: Why Software Is So Bad?
> >
> > Next you might read: "... prominent, leading Linux kernel developer
> > publically labels users stupid instead of handling a special case
>
> I would suggest you do something quite different. Go and read what K&R
> had to say about the design of Unix. One of the design goals of Unix is
> that the system does not think it knows better than the administrator.
> That is one of the reasons unix works well and is so flexible.
The problem is that at the time K&R said this only real men (tm) were
administrators of UNIX systems. Nowadays clueless people like me are
administrators of their Linux system at home. ;-)
With enough stupidity root can always trash his system but if as Robert
says the state of the system will be that "no allocations will succeed"
which seems to be a synonymous for "the system is practically dead" it is
IMHO a good idea to let "swapoff -a return -ENOMEM".
> Alan
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Adrian
--You only think this is a free country. Like the US the UK spends a lot of time explaining its a free country because its a police state. Alan Cox
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