Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 5 Jan 1999 12:22:02 +1300 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: [patch] agv_slice not initialized |
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On Sun, Jan 03, 1999 at 11:31:35PM +0100, MOLNAR Ingo wrote:
> i have left it that way on purpose. There is no reason to assume > that the timeslice will get smaller after a fork. If we do anything > like that then we should reset the _parent's_ timeslice ... (thats > the typical fork() usage pattern: parent forks a child and goes > sleeping [ie. waiting for results] shortly afterwards).
sounds like it could be abused -- sprinkle your code with losts of little
if(!fork()) exit();
snippets everywhere -- and you'll end up getting way to much cpu compared to otehr processes.
-cw
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