From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>, Andrey Savochkin <saw@sw.ru>,
devel@openvz.org, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>,
Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>,
Rohit Seth <rohitseth@google.com>,
Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] BC: user interface (syscalls)
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 21:35:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060823213512.88f4344d.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1156354182.3007.37.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 18:29:42 +0100
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> Ar Mer, 2006-08-23 am 09:50 -0700, ysgrifennodd Andrew Morton:
> > On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 17:43:16 +0400
> > Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru> wrote:
> >
> > > +asmlinkage long sys_set_bclimit(uid_t id, unsigned long resource,
> > > + unsigned long *limits)
> >
> > I'm still a bit mystified about the use of uid_t here. It's not a uid, is
> > it?
>
> Its a uid_t because of setluid() and twenty odd years of existing unix
> practice.
>
I don't understand. This number is an identifier for an accounting
container, which was somehow dreamed up by userspace.
AFAICT it is wholly unrelated to user ID's.
(How does userspace avoid collisions, btw?)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-24 4:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-23 10:46 [PATCH] BC: resource beancounters (v2) Kirill Korotaev
2006-08-23 11:01 ` [PATCH 1/6] BC: kconfig Kirill Korotaev
2006-08-23 13:04 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2006-08-23 22:04 ` [Devel] " Dave Hansen
2006-08-23 22:13 ` Matt Helsley
2006-08-23 22:32 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-08-23 22:27 ` Matt Helsley
2006-08-25 11:30 ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-08-25 11:34 ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-08-24 0:23 ` Chandra Seetharaman
2006-08-24 11:47 ` [ckrm-tech] " Kirill Korotaev
2006-08-24 22:23 ` Matt Helsley
2006-08-23 11:03 ` [PATCH 2/6] BC: beancounters core (API) Kirill Korotaev
2006-08-23 11:37 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-23 13:27 ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-08-23 13:48 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-23 13:30 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2006-08-23 13:49 ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-08-23 13:53 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2006-08-23 22:05 ` Matt Helsley
2006-08-23 16:42 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-24 12:06 ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-08-24 15:00 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-25 10:53 ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-08-24 14:13 ` Oleg Nesterov
2006-08-24 21:33 ` Oleg Nesterov
2006-08-23 11:05 ` [PATCH 3/6] BC: context inheriting and changing Kirill Korotaev
2006-08-23 11:06 ` [PATCH 4/6] BC: user interface (syscalls) Kirill Korotaev
2006-08-23 13:41 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2006-08-23 13:43 ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-08-23 16:50 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-23 17:29 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-24 4:35 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-08-24 11:04 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-24 13:08 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2006-08-25 10:56 ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-08-24 0:30 ` Chandra Seetharaman
2006-08-23 11:06 ` [PATCH 5/6] BC: kernel memory accounting (core) Kirill Korotaev
2006-08-24 0:36 ` Chandra Seetharaman
2006-08-24 21:23 ` Oleg Nesterov
2006-08-25 10:09 ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-08-23 11:08 ` [PATCH 6/6] BC: kernel memory accounting (marks) Kirill Korotaev
2006-08-23 18:30 ` [Devel] " Dave Hansen
2006-08-29 9:52 ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-08-29 15:48 ` Dave Hansen
2006-08-29 15:56 ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-08-23 23:03 ` Dave Hansen
2006-08-24 9:30 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2006-08-24 15:52 ` Dave Hansen
2006-08-29 14:37 ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-08-23 17:05 ` [PATCH] BC: resource beancounters (v2) Andrew Morton
2006-08-24 0:17 ` Chandra Seetharaman
2006-08-25 11:49 ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-08-25 14:30 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-25 14:48 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-28 8:28 ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-08-25 15:14 ` Nick Piggin
2006-08-25 15:57 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-26 3:55 ` Nick Piggin
2006-08-25 16:30 ` Andrey Savochkin
2006-08-25 17:50 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-25 19:00 ` Chandra Seetharaman
2006-08-26 2:15 ` Rohit Seth
2006-08-26 16:37 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-28 16:48 ` Rohit Seth
2006-08-28 17:41 ` [Devel] " Kir Kolyshkin
2006-08-28 22:28 ` Rohit Seth
2006-08-29 10:15 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-29 17:30 ` Rohit Seth
2006-08-29 19:06 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-29 19:15 ` Rohit Seth
2006-08-29 15:35 ` [PATCH] " Kirill Korotaev
2006-08-29 17:08 ` Balbir Singh
2006-08-23 21:00 ` Cedric Le Goater
2006-08-24 5:52 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-24 10:59 ` Alan Cox
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