On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 11:11 -0800, Jay Lan wrote:

Guillaume Thouvenin wrote:

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It's what I'm proposing. The problem is to be alerted when a new process
is created in order to add it in the correct group of processes if the
parent belongs to one (or several) groups. The notification can be done
with the fork connector patch. 

I am not quite comfortable of ELSA requesting a fork hook this way.
How many hooks in the stock kernel that are related to accounting? Can
anyone answer this question? I know of 'acct_process()' in exit.c used
by the BSD accounting and ELSA is requesting a hook in fork. If people
raise the same question again a few years later, how many people will
still remember this ELSA hook?

  The fork connector is not related to accounting. It's a connector that
allows to send information to a user space application when a fork
occurs in the kernel.

  This information is used by ELSA by I think that this hook will be
used by some others user space applications and IMHO, it's not
incompatible with a specific hook for accounting tool if needed.

Guillaume