Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755271Ab0LDXci (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Dec 2010 18:32:38 -0500 Received: from mail.lang.hm ([64.81.33.126]:55902 "EHLO bifrost.lang.hm" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755060Ab0LDXch (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Dec 2010 18:32:37 -0500 Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2010 15:31:59 -0800 (PST) From: david@lang.hm X-X-Sender: dlang@asgard.lang.hm To: Colin Walters cc: Linus Torvalds , Mike Galbraith , Ingo Molnar , Oleg Nesterov , Peter Zijlstra , Markus Trippelsdorf , Mathieu Desnoyers , LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] sched: automated per session task groups In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <1289783580.495.58.camel@maggy.simson.net> <1289811438.2109.474.camel@laptop> <1289820766.16406.45.camel@maggy.simson.net> <1289821590.16406.47.camel@maggy.simson.net> <20101115125716.GA22422@redhat.com> <1289856350.14719.135.camel@maggy.simson.net> <20101116130413.GA29368@redhat.com> <1289917109.5169.131.camel@maggy.simson.net> <20101116150319.GA3475@redhat.com> <1289922108.5169.185.camel@maggy.simson.net> <20101116172804.GA9930@elte.hu> <1290281700.28711.9.camel@maggy.simson.net> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1101 Lines: 26 On Sat, 4 Dec 2010, Colin Walters wrote: > Speaking of the scheduler documentation - note that its sample shell > code contains exactly the problem showing what's wrong with > auto-grouping-by-tty, which is: > > # firefox & # Launch firefox and move it to "browser" group > > As soon as you do that from the same terminal that you're going to > launch the "make" from, you're back to total lossage. Are you going > to explain to a student that "oh, you need to create a new > gnome-terminal tab and launch firefox from that"? as someone who starts firefox from a terminal session all the time, I always want to start it from it's own dedicated session, if for no other reason that it spits out a TON of error messages over time, and I don't want them popping up in a window where I'm doing something else. so this is a very bad example. David Lang -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/