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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2016 13:24:47 -0400
From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Hello, Serge.

On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 11:59:10AM -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> > Just monitoring is less jarring than implementing security enforcement
> > via cgroup, but it is still jarring.  What's wrong with recursive
> > process hierarchy monitoring which is in line with the whole facility
> > is implemented anyway?
> 
> As I think Topi pointed out, one shortcoming is that if there is a short-lived
> child task, using its /proc/self/status is racy.  You might just miss that it
> ever even existed, let alone that the "application" needed it.

But the parent can collect whatever its children used.  We already do
that with other stats.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun