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From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 05:23:32 +0100
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Subject: Re: cgroups(7): documenting /sys/kernel/cgroup files
To: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
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Hello Roman,

On 8 January 2018 at 22:11, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
<mtk.manpages@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Roman,
>
> I wrote cgroups(7) text below to document the files added by you in
> Linux 4.15. Could you let me know if the following text is okay please:
>
>    /sys/kernel/cgroup files
>        /sys/kernel/cgroup/delegate (since Linux 4.15)
>               This file exports a list of the cgroups v2 files  (one  per
>               line) that are delegatable (i.e., whose ownership should be
>               changed to the user ID of the delegatee).  In  the  future,
>               the  set  of delegatable files may change or grow, and this
>               file provides a way for the  kernel  to  inform  user-space
>               applications of which files must be delegated.  As at Linux
>               4.15, one sees the following when inspecting this file:
>
>                   $ cat /sys/kernel/cgroup/delegate
>                   cgroup.procs
>                   cgroup.subtree_control

I have a question about /sys/kernel/cgroup/delegate: why does this
file not list cgroup.threads, since that is also a file that
(potentially) should be delegated?

Cheers,

Michael