Re: Gettask

Rik van Riel (H.H.vanRiel@fys.ruu.nl)
Mon, 16 Feb 1998 17:44:46 +0100 (MET)


On Sat, 14 Feb 1998, Cesare Pizzi wrote:

> I developed 3 new system calls for linux. Have a look to them (attached
> there is also the little source), and let me know if someone is
> interested in
> them.
>
> The system calls are:
>
> gettask(TaskName) This call returns the number of running
> "TaskName"
> processes on the system
>
> getfirsttaskid(TaskName) This call returns the first PID of
> "TaskName"
>
> getnexttaskid(TaskName) This call return the next PID of
> "TaskName"

Wouldn't it be better to do this in user-space???
The kernel is big enough as it is...

Furthermore, what's the reason for implementing these
systcalls? It looks like a simple 'ps ax|grep TaskName'
could do the same...
(I could be wrong however, as I haven't read the code
yet :-)

Rik.
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