Re: [PATCH] O17int

[Måns Rullgård]

Con Kolivas <kernel@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Food for the starving masses.
>
> This patch prevents any single task from being able to starve the
> runqueue that it's on. This minimises the impact a poorly behaved
> application or a malicious one has on the rest of the system. If an

I have to disagree.  Open a file of a few hundred lines in XEmacs and
do a regexp search for "^[> ]*-*\n\\([> ]*.*\n\\)*[> ]*foo".  The
system will more or less freeze.  It's a very nasty regexp, and it's
an error to try to use it, but it still shouldn't freeze the system.

-- 
Måns Rullgård
mru@xxxxxxxxxxxx

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