On Thursday, 5 July 2007 17:03, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 05:04:47PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Thursday, 5 July 2007 16:39, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > > Why?
> >
> > You have processes that don't react to signals, because some other user land
> > task is misbehaving. I'd call that ugly at the very least.
>
> It already happens with, say, NFS. Don't think about it in terms of a
> userland task misbehaving - think of it in terms of a resource becoming
> unavailable.
I think there's a difference between a userland task playing the role of a
resource and a "real" external resource the kernel doesn't control.
IMO, userland tasks should not have the power to affect each other as though
they were parts of the kernel.
Greetings,
Rafael
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