Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 15:49:48 -0800 (PST)
From: dean gaudet <dean-list-linux-kernel@arctic.org>
To: Claudio Scordino <cloud.of.andor@gmail.com>
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       "Hua Zhong (hzhong)" <hzhong@cisco.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org, David Wagner <daw@cs.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] getrusage sucks
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On Sat, 12 Nov 2005, Claudio Scordino wrote:

> >
> > In which case the only comment I have is the one about accuracy - and
> > that is true for procfs too so will only come up if someone gets the
> > urge to use perfctr timers for precision resource management
> 
> According to your comments, this the final patch. 

this only lets you get RUSAGE_SELF data for the target... for many 
processes it's more important to get the RUSAGE_CHILDREN data... and 
really i'm having a hard time imagining a use for this code which on 
further inspection doesn't eventually blow up to the requirements of a 
proper accounting subsystem... (of which i understand there are two or 
three competining implementations in progress?)

do you have a use case for this new code?

-dean
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