OOM-killer prevention for master kdeinit process

Oswald Buddenhagen ossi at kde.org
Fri Aug 4 21:15:52 BST 2006


On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 09:27:22PM +0200, Thomas Zander wrote:
> On Friday 4 August 2006 20:59, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > >  Any objections to commit?
> >
> > yes. you are essentially creating a blank check for any application to
> > "escape" oom-killing,
> 
> Could you explain why changing this one process would have that effect?
> 
uhm, well, actually, it's not that bad, as EXECUTE is hard-coded, making
it effectively my second case.
otoh, hard-coding paths in binaries is another thing that *should* be
avoided (not that *yet another* case would actually hurt ...).

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