> Anyways, this kind of "importance" could be really useful because in critical
> situations there would be a better chance that your important applications will
> continue to run ore are able to start.
> The thing I could imagine the whole issue is that every process has an
> importance. If a new process gets spawned it inherits the importance if its
> parent, where the mother of all processes (usually "init") gets the highest
> importance on start. Then there should be a way for a process to change its
> importance ( maybe a syscall similar to "nice" ). Only root process are allowed
> to increase its level but everybody can decrease it.
One addendum : The parent sets the importance of the child... the child
can't change it's own importance :)
[or it can - but it's limited up to what the parent set it unless it's a
root-owned process]
That work? (I like the idea :)
G'day, eh? :)
- Teunis