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

Guillaume Thouvenin
2005-02-24T07:46:39Z

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