> thanks Roland for the detailed analysis. I've queued up the patch below > in the x86 tree. I suspect we can wait with this for v2.6.25, due to > this being long-standing behavior of Linux? Thus we could observe the > effects of this patch for a longer time.
It's certainly nothing new. The failure mode of concern is only for a buggy program to fail to crash as quickly and gracefully as it might. Thanks, Roland - 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/
