On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:29:45 -0400 Clinton Ebadi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> You've just rediscovered one of the few good design decisions of the > l4hurd project. See the bits on memory allocation in [0]. 'Tis a shame > that Hurd has pretty much failed (l4hurd and ngHurd got closer and > closer to fixing the terrible flaws of Mach Hurd ... but, alas, l4 > stagnated and Coyotos has yet to appear dooming us to another 30 years > of UNIX it seems). > > [0] > http://www.walfield.org/papers/20070104-walfield-access-decomposition-policy-refinement.pdf you know what's sad? WinCE even has "low on memory" messages - standard system messages like everything else that applications are meant to honor and try and clean up stuff when they get it. it of course is voluntary - and it's a measure to avoid HAVING to kill off apps... but even WinCE has it... and we have no such ability right now - no standard... so we are stuck with uglier hacks as the only solution. :( -- Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community