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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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