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Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 19:26:07 -0800
From: Drew Hess <drew.hess@gmail.com>
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To: Paul Jackson <pj@engr.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] fork_connector: add a fork connector
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On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 07:23:35 -0800, Paul Jackson <pj@engr.sgi.com> wrote:

> Out of curiosity, what are these 'several user space applications?'  The
> only one I know of is this extension to bsd accounting to include
> capturing parent and child pid at fork.  Probably you've mentioned some
> other uses of fork_connector before here, but I missed it.


I have a user-space batch job scheduler that could use fork_connector
to track which processes belong to a job.  It looks perfect for what I
need.

I would also like to see a do_exit hook, but only as a convenience. I
can probably scrape the BSD accounting files in lieu of a do_exit
hook, but if I had one, I wouldn't need to touch disk for my job
accounting.

d
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