Re: counters

Manik Raina
2002-05-17T14:27:38Z

Frank Schaefer wrote:

> Hi Manik
>
> and sorry that I read only half of your initial post.
> I had a quick look at fs/read_write.c.
>
> I don't see any hook in the functions here, to perform such a task. And
> here this should belong to -- shouldn't it?

quite right. I am wondering if any locking is required for updating
some counters which one may add in task_struct or if adding counters
in task_struct is acceptable at all.