Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Re-nice kswapd B-) | Date | Wed, 26 Jun 96 11:36:56 PDT | From | Craig Milo Rogers <> |
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>I guess this is another case of: > Root wants to shoot himself in the foot; do we: > a) supply the gun, or > b) return -EPERM and slap him in the head. >Take your pick.
During system configuration, we will ask whether the kernel should supply a pistol, shotgun, machine gun, or anti-aircraft gun. Each gun may be compiled into the kernel, or loaded as a module (manually or by kerneld). If multiple guns are configured, the "tunegun" command may be used to select the primary gun at runtime. There will be a kerneld facility to play a user-specified sound effect on /dev/audio whenever a gun is fired.
Foot selection will be a user-level issue, but, for SysV compatability, it will be accomplished by targeting a shoe, which may be mounted on whichever foot is desired. However, /dev/shoe will have to wait for the implementation of 32-bit device numbers before accomodating the needs of timeshared systems with large numbers of shod users, or power users such as Imelda Marcos.
:-)
Craig Milo Rogers
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