[coyotos-dev] Status and roadmap

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 17:30 +0000, Sam Mason wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 10:22:30AM -0500, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> > The kernel does not kill processes. The process in question is not using
> > kernel resource in any case, and can be paged out. Reclaiming the
> > process is the job of application-level code. In this case, the most
> > likely method will be to destroy the space bank, because the process
> > cannot respond to a "destroy yourself" request.
> 
> I'm still getting used to a such a minimal kernel!  I also keep getting
> the feeling that there should be some way of knowing that this has
> happened and we should be able to recover from it.  But this is just one
> of many possible failure modes and once a process has got itself into
> this state I guess there's not much that can be done for it.

Yes. Further, it's a failure mode that requires extraordinary
contortions to get into...
-- 
Jonathan S. Shapiro, Ph.D.
Managing Director
The EROS Group, LLC
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