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Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 01:00:57 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [Patch][RFC]  Disabling per-tgid stats on task exit in
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On Fri, 09 Jun 2006 03:41:04 -0400
Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> wrote:

> Hence, this patch introduces a configuration parameter
> 	/sys/kernel/taskstats_tgid_exit
> through which a privileged user can turn on/off sending of per-tgid stats on
> task exit.

That seems a bit clumsy.  What happens if one consumer wants the per-tgid
stats and another does not?