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From: bert hubert <bert.hubert@netherlabs.nl>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Claudio Scordino <cloud.of.andor@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, luto@myrealbox.com,
	kernel-janitors@lists.osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Extending getrusage
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 09:41:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060421074129.GA31972@outpost.ds9a.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060420162140.0a03e227.akpm@osdl.org>

On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 04:21:40PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> I'd be reluctant to support this change without a compelling description of
> why we actually want it.

It offers nothing that isn't available elsewhere (I think), except more
cheaply. It also has the potential to be multiplatform one day. Right now to
get the CPU usage of a random pid, one has to implement the equivalent of
/proc/ parsing for each platform.

If at least Linux did 'getrusage for foreign pid', that would clean up
things up somewhat already.

It might even mean a 'portable top', and who knows, more unixes might
follow.

I for one would save work having a getrusage that does this.

	Bert

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-21  7:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-20 15:21 [PATCH] Extending getrusage Claudio Scordino
2006-04-20 23:21 ` Andrew Morton
2006-04-21  7:41   ` bert hubert [this message]
2006-04-21 10:05     ` Claudio Scordino
2006-04-21 14:32       ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-04-22 10:25         ` Claudio Scordino

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