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Subject: Re: RFC: documentation of the autogroup feature
From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
To: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 18:11:15 +0100
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On Wed, 2016-11-23 at 17:04 +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:

> > > In what circumstances does a process get moved back to the root 
> > > task group?
> > 
> > Userspace actions, tool or human fingers.
> 
> Could you say a little more please. What Kernel-user-space 
> APIs/system calls/etc. cause this to happen?

Well, the system call would be write(), scribbling in the cgroups vfs
interface.. not all that helpful without ever more technical detail.

> > > Actually, can you define for me what the root task group is, and 
> > > why it exists? That may be worth some words in this man page.
> > 
> > I don't think we need group scheduling details, there's plenty of
> > documentation elsewhere for those who want theory.  
> 
> Well, you suggested above 
> 
>     Perhaps mention that moving a task back to the root task
>     group will result in the autogroup again taking effect.

Dang, evolution doesn't have an unsend button :)

	-Mike