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    SubjectRe: [RFC] Prefixing cgroup generic control filenames with "cgroup."
    On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:28:31 -0800
    "Paul Menage" <menage@google.com> wrote:

    > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Andrew Morton
    > <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
    >
    > >
    > > Because if something is in /foo/bar/cgroup/notify_on_release then
    > > prefixing the filename with "cgroup_" seems pretty pointless.
    > >
    >
    > The point would be to avoid situations where a user has code that
    > creates a group directory called "foo", and then in a future kernel
    > release cgroups introduces a control file called "foo". If it's
    > prefixed, then the user just has to avoid creating groups prefixed by
    > "cgroup." or any subsystem name, so collisions will be less likely.
    >

    Maybe cgroups shouldn't be putting kernel-generated files in places where
    user-specified files appear?

    (Am still thrashing around a bit here without an overview of the overall
    layout and naming).



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