Re: On PATH_MAX

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 16:02 +0100, ness wrote:
> Bas Wijnen wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 01:29:21AM -0500, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> > 
> >>>>>Why shouldn't the thread of execution and scheduling time be provided by 
> >>>>>the caller, too?
> > 
> > 
> > If the server can make guarantees about latency (which is useful anyway, to
> > say the least), it should be able to tell how much schedule it needs.  Then 
> > it
> > may demand that much from the client, and the client really transfers it, 
> > that
> > is, it isn't gone when the client is destroyed.
> 
> Sth. similar came to my mind:
> The caller calls the server. It grants a thread of execution (the thread 
> musn't be revokable). It also grants a minimum schedule (needed to 
> recover).

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.

Also, do you have any idea how complicated this would be to actually
implement? Or to use?

shap