linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] Prefixing cgroup generic control filenames with "cgroup."

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Message-Id: <20080304192436.5690bc0e.pj@sgi.com>
Date:	Tue, 4 Mar 2008 19:24:36 -0600
From:	Paul Jackson <pj@....com>
To:	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	xpl@...n.net, menage@...gle.com, containers@...ts.osdl.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl, xemul@...nvz.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Prefixing cgroup generic control filenames with "cgroup."

Paul M wrote (quoted by Li Zefan):
>> A compromise might be to keep "tasks" unprefixed, and say that future
>> names get the "cgroup." prefix; 

Another stray idea, for the master of stray ideas ;), how about (1) renaming
all the cgroup files as you like, Paul M, even including tasks to cgroup.tasks
or whatever, and then (2) adding symlinks for the legacy names, such as:

    tasks -> cgroup.tasks

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