Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Tue, 13 May 1997 09:32:12 +0100 (GMT/BST) | From | Mike Jagdis <> | Subject | Re: Out of memory kernel deat |
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On Mon, 12 May 1997, Raul Miller wrote:
> On May 12, Tim Hollebeek wrote > > SIGDANGER is essentially useless because it is AIX specific; >99% of > > software ignores it so it gains you nothing. > > Unless you have a daemon ready to implement some kind of process killing > policy when it gets the signal. I think you'd need real-time extensions > to write this daemon right (e.g. lock it into memory). And, of course, > you'd want it to be very, very small.
We already have memory lock down. We already have real time scheduling. We even have a spare bit in the standard signal vector.
And, yes, I do believe that a broadcast SIGDANGER with a default behaviour of ignore is a useful start. Ok, hardly anything uses it at the moment - but then if it existed perhaps things might change? :-)
Mike
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