Re: [PATCH] capabilities: add capability cgroup controller

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Mon Jun 27 2016 - 15:17:53 EST


Hello,

On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 3:10 PM, Topi Miettinen <toiwoton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'll have to study these more. But from what I saw so far, it looks to
> me that a separate tool would be needed to read taskstats and if that
> tool is not taken by distros, the users would not be any wiser, right?
> With cgroup (or /proc), no new tools would be needed.

That is a factor but shouldn't be a deciding factor in designing our
user-facing interfaces. Please also note that kernel source tree
already has tools/ subdirectory which contains userland tools which
are distributed along with the kernel.

Thanks.

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tejun