Re: [Lse-tech] Re: A common layer for Accounting packages

Andrew Morton
2005-02-25T05:29:52Z

Kaigai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com> wrote:
>
> In my understanding, what Andrew Morton said is "If target functionality can
> implement in user space only, then we should not modify the kernel-tree".

fork, exec and exit upcalls sound pretty good to me. As long as

a) they use the same common machinery and

b) they are next-to-zero cost if something is listening on the netlink
socket but no accounting daemon is running.

Question is: is this sufficient for CSA?