Re: [ckrm-tech] [PATCH 6/6] Resource Groups over generic containers

[Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>]

Paul Jackson wrote:
> Balbir wrote:
>> This should be kmalloc(nbytes), an echo ".." has a "\n" associated
>> with it.
> 
> But a:
>   write(1, "..", 2);
> does not have a trialing newline.

Yes, true.

> 
> If some consumer of this kernel buffer copy of what the
> user wrote cannot handle the possible trailing whitespace,
> they will have to chomp (Perl phrase) it off.  You can't
> just whack one byte blindly.
> 

Yes, agreed.

> At least for the kernel/cpuset.c code, from whence this
> came, the consumers of this kernel buffer copy are such
> routines as simple_strtoul() and cpulist_parse(), both
> of which cope with trailing newlines.
> 

The problem I have is that match_token() that's used by
the resource group's infrastructure cannot deal with
"\n". I think the code needs in res_groups needs to
get smarter like the code in simple_strtoul()


-- 
	Thanks for the feedback,
	Balbir Singh,
	Linux Technology Center,
	IBM Software Labs