Re: config PROC_CHILDREN

["Iago López Galeiras" <iago@endocode.com>]

Hi Jean,

The purpose of this option is enabling /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/children without
having to enable CHECKPOINT_RESTORE, which is hidden behind EXPERT.

Regarding its lack of help, documentation is in already in place[1] but perhaps
that's not clear for the user because as you say the Kconfig help text is missing.

I suggest adding something like:

    Provides a fast way to retrieve first level children pids of a task. See
    <file:Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt> for more information.

Do you think that's enough?

Thanks.

[1]: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt

On 07/03/2015 09:39 AM, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Hi Iago,
> 
> You just introduced a Linux kernel configuration option named
> PROC_CHILDREN. It is user-visible but has no help. This is bad.
> 
> As this option appears to be selected automatically as needed, I'm not
> sure why you made it visible?
> 
> Please either hide the option, or add a help text to let the user make
> a sane decision.
> 
> Thanks,
> 

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Iago López Galeiras
Software developer @ Endocode AG
iago@endocode.com