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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: per-thread rusage
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 21:09:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070405040956.GO2986@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7653.1175726207@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>

On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:29:31 PDT, William Lee Irwin III said:
>> Index: anon/include/linux/resource.h
>> ===================================================================
>> --- anon.orig/include/linux/resource.h	2007-04-04 09:57:41.239118534 0700
>> +++ anon/include/linux/resource.h	2007-04-04 09:57:59.840178548 -0700
>> @@ -18,7 +18,8 @@
>>   */
>>  #define	RUSAGE_SELF	0
>>  #define	RUSAGE_CHILDREN	(-1)
>> -#define RUSAGE_BOTH	(-2)		/* sys_wait4() uses this */
>> +#define RUSAGE_THREAD	(-2)
>> +#define RUSAGE_BOTH	(-3)		/* sys_wait4() uses this */

On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 06:36:47PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> Umm.. I'm having a high-idiot-quotient day today, but don't you want to
> leave _BOTH at -2 and put _THREAD at -3, to avoid an ABI breakage?

It's a rather natural question. The answer is that RUSAGE_BOTH is only
ever used internally to the kernel, so there is no userspace ABI change.


-- wli

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-05  4:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-04 17:29 per-thread rusage William Lee Irwin III
2007-04-04 17:48 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-04-04 18:10   ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-04-09 23:53     ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-10  0:42       ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-04-10  0:53         ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-10  1:12           ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-04-10  1:18             ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-01 17:29         ` Bill Irwin
2007-05-01 18:39           ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-05-01 20:24             ` Bill Irwin
2007-05-01 22:10               ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-05-01 22:27                 ` Theodore Tso
2007-05-01 22:34                   ` Bill Irwin
2007-05-01 23:04                     ` Alan Cox
2007-05-01 23:17                       ` Bill Irwin
2007-05-02  5:05                       ` Balbir Singh
2007-05-02  0:17                   ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-05-02  4:31                     ` Theodore Tso
2007-05-02  4:57                       ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-05-01 22:29                 ` Bill Irwin
2007-04-04 22:36 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-04-05  4:09   ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
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2007-04-10 20:10 Oleg Nesterov

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