From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261438AbULIO1M (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Dec 2004 09:27:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261469AbULIO1M (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Dec 2004 09:27:12 -0500 Received: from mail-ex.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:50311 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261438AbULIO1J (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Dec 2004 09:27:09 -0500 To: Limin Gu Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] jobfs - new virtual filesystem for job kernel/user interface References: <200412082203.iB8M3Lk22375@dbear.engr.sgi.com> From: Andreas Schwab X-Yow: What's the MATTER Sid?.. Is your BEVERAGE unsatisfactory? Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 15:27:08 +0100 In-Reply-To: <200412082203.iB8M3Lk22375@dbear.engr.sgi.com> (Limin Gu's message of "Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:03:21 -0800 (PST)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Limin Gu writes: > Hello, > > I am looking for your comments on the attached draft, it is the job patch > for 2.6.9. I have posted job patch for older kernel before, but in this patch > I have replaced the /proc/job binary ioctl calls with a new small virtual > filesystem (jobfs). Calling it "job" whould be quite confusing since it is already used to refer to all processes in a process group in the shell. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."