On Thu 2007-10-18 15:10:07, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Rene Herman wrote: > > That first threshold sounds fine yes. To me, the second mostly sounds > > like a job for SIGTERM though. > > I agree. Applications shouldn't be expected to be yet more complicated > and have different levels of low memory handling. You might want to > give a process a second shot at handling SIGDANGER but after that's it's > all about preparation for a shutdown.
That works okay on a PC, but try cellphone one day. You want management app to close the least used application. You do not want _kernel_ to select "who to send SIGTERM to". Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/