From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264800AbUEESGb (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 May 2004 14:06:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264804AbUEESGb (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 May 2004 14:06:31 -0400 Received: from opersys.com ([64.40.108.71]:15625 "EHLO www.opersys.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264800AbUEESG2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 May 2004 14:06:28 -0400 Message-ID: <40992E7F.3070006@opersys.com> Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 14:12:15 -0400 From: Karim Yaghmour Reply-To: karim@opersys.com Organization: Opersys inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, fr, fr-be, fr-ca, fr-fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Guillaume Thouvenin CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Enhanced Linux System Accounting References: <4098EB80.2060908@bull.net> In-Reply-To: <4098EB80.2060908@bull.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Guillaume Thouvenin wrote: > This patch is just a beginning and currently it allows to group > process together in a "bank" via /dev/elsacct device using ioctl(). > Also, it allows to recover accounting informations (taken from BSD > accounting for the moment) about a "bank". We also provide a C program > called elsa_cmd.c that "plays" with ioctl() to manage banks. This > program can be found at Maybe you want to consider using relayfs instead of implementing yet another mechanism for transfering data from kernel space to user-space: http://www.opersys.com/relayfs/index.html Karim -- Author, Speaker, Developer, Consultant Pushing Embedded and Real-Time Linux Systems Beyond the Limits http://www.opersys.com || karim@opersys.com || 1-866-677-4546