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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc4-mm1] end-of-proces handling for acct-csa
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On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 20:46 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com> wrote:
> >
> > Since my idea of providing an accounting framework was considered
> > 'overkill', here i submit a tiny patch just to allow CSA to
> > handle end-of-process (eop) situation by saving off accounting
> > data before a task_struct is disposed.
> >
> > This patch is to modify the acct_process() in acct.c, which is
> > invoked from do_exit() to handle eop for BSD accounting. Now
> > the acct_process() wrapper will also take care of CSA, if it has
> > been loaded. If the CSA module has been loaded, a CSA routine
> > will be invoked to construct a CSA job record and to write the
> > record to the CSA accounting file.
>
> I really don't want to have to (and shouldn't need to) become an accounting
> person, but as there seems to be a communication problem somewhere..
>
> Please, you guys are the subject matter experts. Put your heads together
> and come up with something.

I completely agree with that and we will continue this conversation in
private with Jay and all people involved to come up with an appropriate
solution.

Guillaume

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