Re: On PATH_MAX

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 21:01 +0100, ness wrote:
> Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 20:00 +0100, ness wrote:
> > 
> >>>The client cannot grant a guarantee that the client does not have. The
> >>>client's schedule is revocable, therefore any schedule that it might
> >>>grant is revocable.
> >>
> >>Why should a given schedule be revokable?
> > 
> > 
> > If you cannot revoke schedule, how do you correct an erroneously issued
> > schedule?
> > 
> 
> I'm not an expert and I have not yet read anything about reservation 
> based scheduling, but let me raise the question: why should a schedule 
> be issued erroneously?

Because I type "1ms in 50ms" when I meant "2ms in 100ms", or because I
start a program with a schedule and later realize that I do not want it
to run.