Re: 2.5.68-mm2

From: Randy.Dunlap (rddunlap@osdl.org)
Date: Fri Apr 25 2003 - 13:20:42 EST


On Fri, 25 Apr 2003 13:56:31 -0400 (EDT) Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> wrote:

| On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
|
| > On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 04:24:56PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
| > > Of course reasonable way may mean that bash does some things a bit slower,
| > > but given that the whole thing works well in most cases anyway, I think
| > > the kernel handling the situation is preferable.
| >
| > Eh? It makes bash _faster_ for all cases of starting up a child process.
| > And it even works on 2.4 kernels.
|
| The point is that even if bash is fixed it's desirable to address the
| issue in the kernel, other applications may well misbehave as well.

So when would this ever end?

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~Randy
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