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From:   Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Date:   Wed, 6 Jan 2021 10:33:43 +0900
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] tools/lib/fs: Cache cgroupfs mount point
To:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
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Hi Arnaldo,

On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 8:51 PM Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
<acme@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> Em Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 06:05:56PM +0900, Namhyung Kim escreveu:
> > Currently it parses the /proc file everytime it opens a file in the
> > cgroupfs.  Save the last result to avoid it (assuming it won't be
> > changed between the accesses).
>
> Which is the most likely case, but can't we use something like inotify
> to detect that and bail out or warn the user?

Hmm.. looks doable.  Will check.

Thanks,
Namhyung