OOM-killer prevention for master kdeinit process

[Lubos Lunak]

On Friday 04 August 2006 22:15, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> 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.

 What second case, setuid KApplication? There's no setuid KApplication. Or do 
you still see some other problem with it?

> otoh, hard-coding paths in binaries is another thing that *should* be
> avoided (not that *yet another* case would actually hurt ...).

 Stupid OOM-killer should be probably avoided more.

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