Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [ProbableSpam] Re: [RFC, PATCH 0/5] Going forward with Resource Management - A cpu controller | From | Chandra Seetharaman <> | Date | Mon, 07 Aug 2006 08:58:14 -0700 |
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On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 02:30 -0700, Paul Jackson wrote: > Kirill wrote: > > > A filesystem based interface is useful when you have hierarchies (as resource > > > groups and cpusets do) since it naturally defines a convenient to use > > > hierarchical namespace. > > but it is not much convinient for applications then. > > Is this simply a language issue? File systems hierarchies > are more easily manipulated with shell utilities (ls, cat, > find, grep, ...) and system call API's are easier to access > from C? > > If so, then perhaps all that's lacking for convenient C access > to a filesystem based interface is a good library, that presents > an API convenient for use from C code, but underneath makes the > necessary file system calls (open, read, diropen, stat, ...). >
I totally agree.
When the difference comes to language issue, one advantage of filesystem is that there is no need for a user space app to do simple management. --
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