Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] fix possible NULL pointer use in hw/ptimer.c

[Markus Hitter]

Am 05.01.2008 um 03:47 schrieb Rob Landley:

> You can disable overcommit and give the system an egregious amount  
> of swap
> space, but then your pathological case is the system going into swap
> thrashing la-la land and essentially freezing (advancing at 0.1% of  
> its
> normal rate, if that, for _hours_) instead of killing some runaway  
> processes
> (or rebooting) and recovering.

Quite obviously, we have very different expectations on what  
executables should do. I expect code to be as reliable as possible,  
to be careful when aquiring resources and if a process would ever  
happen to make my computer spontanuously reboot, I'd throw that  
binary as far away as possible and warn everybody else not to even  
touch this thing.

One of the major reasons to run emulators is to protect against such  
sloppy code, btw.


Markus

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