Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 9 Oct 2000 14:44:37 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler |
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On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > I'd prefer just X having a higher "mm nice level" or something. > > Which it has, because: > > 1) CAP_RAW_IO > 2) p->euid == 0
Oh, I agree, but we might want to generalize this a bit so that root could say "this process is important" and then drop root privileges and still get "credited" for the fact that it's important.
It's not a big deal. It works for X right now.
Linus
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