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Re:I've now disabled systemd-oomd on my Fedora desktops by josephcsible on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @06:18PM (#33901793)
> explicitly specify that a given process wishes to live outside of the seat’s lifetime

Okay, so it does that now. But now how do you tell if it's frozen?

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Re:I've now disabled systemd-oomd on my Fedora desktops by kaba0 on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @07:28PM (#33902438)
That’s not really the point, but there are of course plenty of ways for that (output, watchdogs, etc).

The point is that the OS does actually know “statically” that a given process is a daemon or not.

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Re:I've now disabled systemd-oomd on my Fedora desktops by josephcsible on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @09:56PM (#33903556)
How is this random systemd convention better than a random UNIX convention though?
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Re:I've now disabled systemd-oomd on my Fedora desktops by kaba0 on Thursday December 08, 2022 @01:27AM (#33904860)
One is decidable the other can have false positives.
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