[PATCH] Protect inetd and cron from being killed under high-pressure swapping

[Rui Paulo]

On 17 Nov 2009, at 14:44, gnn at freebsd.org wrote:

> At Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:02:08 +0100,
> Attilio Rao wrote:
>> 
>> This simple patch protects inetd and cron from being killed under
>> high-pressure swapping systems:
>> http://www.freebsd.org/~attilio/Sandvine/STABLE_8/madvised/madvised.diff
>> 
>> This patch has been contributed back from Sandvine Incorporated.
>> Comments, reviews and testing are welcome.
>> 
> 
> Good idea and the patch looks OK to me.

Yes, the idea is good, but should we really trust inetd and crond that much ?
Are there other daemons that do this?

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Rui Paulo