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

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:35:34 +0000
Rui Paulo <rpaulo at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?
> 

contrib/amd/amd/amd.c is the only C-file I can find in the tree.

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Gary Jennejohn