Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:34:30 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>,
       Jean-Pierre Dion <jean-pierre.dion@bull.net>,
       Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com>,
       Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@bull.net>,
       Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>, Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>,
       CKRM-Tech <ckrm-tech@lists.sourceforge.net>,
       Erich Focht <efocht@hpce.nec.com>,
       elsa-devel <elsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
       Gerrit Huizenga <gh@us.ibm.com>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
       "Chandra S. Seetharaman" <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/02] Process Events Connector
Message-ID: <20051026003430.GA27680@kroah.com>
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On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 05:07:40PM -0700, Matt Helsley wrote:
> Andrew, all,
> 
> 	Is there any reason this patch could not go for a spin in a -mm tree?
> It's similar to Guillaume's fork connector patch which did appear in -mm
> at one point. It replaces the fork_advisor patch that ELSA is currently
> using, can be used by userspace CKRM code, and in general is useful for
> anything that may wish to monitor changes in all processes.

Why can't you use a lsm module for this instead?  It looks like you are
wanting to hook things in pretty much the same places we currently have
the lsm hooks at.

thanks,

greg k-h
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