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Message-Id: <20080228134027.05b2aa87.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:40:27 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	"Paul Menage" <menage@...gle.com>
Cc:	containers@...ts.osdl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl,
	xemul@...nvz.org, pj@....com
Subject: Re: [RFC] Prefixing cgroup generic control filenames with "cgroup."

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:28:31 -0800
"Paul Menage" <menage@...gle.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Andrew Morton
> <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> 
> >
> >  Because if something is in /foo/bar/cgroup/notify_on_release then
> >  prefixing the filename with "cgroup_" seems pretty pointless.
> >
> 
> The point would be to avoid situations where a user has code that
> creates a group directory called "foo", and then in a future kernel
> release cgroups introduces a control file called "foo". If it's
> prefixed, then the user just has to avoid creating groups prefixed by
> "cgroup." or any subsystem name, so collisions will be less likely.
> 

Maybe cgroups shouldn't be putting kernel-generated files in places where
user-specified files appear?

(Am still thrashing around a bit here without an overview of the overall
layout and naming).

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