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From: Nathan Dabney <smurf@osdlab.org>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 13:31:33 -0800
To: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
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Subject: Re: [patch] sched_[set|get]_affinity() syscall, 2.4.15-pre9
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On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 03:53:04PM -0500, Robert Love wrote:
> Effecting all tasks matching a uid or some other filter is a little
> beyond what either patch does.  Note however that both interfaces have
> atomicity.

I don't see a need for that either, the inheritance and single-process change
are the major abilities needed.

> You can open and write to proc from within a program ... very easily, in
> fact.
> 
> Also, with some sed and grep magic, you can set the affinity of all
> tasks via the proc interface pretty easy.  Just a couple lines.

>From the admin point of view, this last ability is a good one.

A read-only entry in proc wouldn't do much good by itself.  The writable /proc
entry is the one that sounds interesting.

-Nathan

> 	Robert Love
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