Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 17:16:10 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com>
Cc: lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       guillaume.thouvenin@bull.net, tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de
Subject: Re: A common layer for Accounting packages
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Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com> wrote:
>
> Since the need of Linux system accounting has gone beyond what BSD
> accounting provides, i think it is a good idea to create a thin layer
> of common code for various accounting packages, such as BSD accounting,
> CSA, ELSA, etc. The hook to do_exit() at exit.c was changed to invoke
> a routine in the common code which would then invoke those accounting
> packages that register to the acct_common to handle do_exit situation.

This all seems to be heading in the wrong direction.  Do we really want to
have lots of different system accounting packages all hooking into a
generic we-cant-decide-what-to-do-so-we-added-some-pointless-overhead
framework?

Can't we get _one_ accounting system in there, get it right, avoid the
framework?
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