Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:40:27 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Prefixing cgroup generic control filenames with "cgroup." |
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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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