On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 04:08:10PM -0500, Shaya Potter wrote:
> We are trying to write a module that does it's own accounting of
> processes as they are created and deleted. We have an extremely ugly
> hack of taking care of process creation (wrap fork() and clone() in a
> syscall wrapper, as that's the only way processes can be created).
You might want to look at the PAGG patch. SGI did something like this
to implement CSA, an accounting package. Here are some links that might
interest you:
Linux PAGG home page:
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/pagg/
Design Doc:
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/pagg/pagg-lkd.txt
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