From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754713AbZBCPTw (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Feb 2009 10:19:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752280AbZBCPTp (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Feb 2009 10:19:45 -0500 Received: from kov.eti.br ([207.210.245.77]:51759 "EHLO kov.eti.br" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752273AbZBCPTo convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Feb 2009 10:19:44 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 2435 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 10:19:44 EST Subject: Re: cgroup mount point From: Gustavo Noronha To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <87ljsnzo4v.fsf@benfinney.id.au> References: <20090202200013.GU3643@vespa.holoscopio.com> <1233606371.15779.32.camel@radis.liafa.jussieu.fr> <20090202205246.GA28593@glandium.org> <20090202214153.GV3643@vespa.holoscopio.com> <20090203102416.GA8886@redhat.com> <87ljsnzo4v.fsf@benfinney.id.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Organization: Debian Project Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:38:33 -0200 Message-Id: <1233671913.8902.53.camel@abacate.horta> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Spam-Score: -3.9 X-Spam_bar: --- Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 23:44 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > I agree with all that Thadeu Lima says here. I would add that cgroups > are nothing to do with device nodes, so definitely don't belong in > ‘/dev/’ either. > > Since they're a filesystem mapping “for browsing and manipulation > from user space” of a kernel facility, I think ‘/sys/cgroups/’ is > appropriate. I agree with this point of view. I believe /sys/cgroups is the way to go. Now, of course this has the drawback of shadowing something future versions of Linux would make available at that same path, but I am pretty sure they would be careful not to do that after distributions have settled on a standard path. See you, -- Gustavo Noronha Debian Project