linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 5/5] Add a Signal Control Group Subsystem

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Message-Id: <1209541714.6095.72.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:48:34 -0700
From:	Matt Helsley <matthltc@...ibm.com>
To:	Paul Jackson <pj@....com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org, clg@...ibm.com,
	pavel@....cz, menage@...gle.com, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 5/5] Add a Signal Control Group Subsystem


On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 14:30 -0500, Paul Jackson wrote:
> > +static struct cftype kill_file = {
> > +	.name = "kill",
> 
> The name "kill" seems ambiguous to me.  It suggests that any write
> will send some default signal (TERM or KILL?) to all tasks in the
> cgroup, rather like the 'killall' command.
> 
> I'm guessing that more people, on seeing this file in a cgroup
> directory, will guess correctly what it does if it were named
> "signal" or "send_signal" or some such.

OK, I renamed it signal.send and replaced all uses of "kill" in the code
to indicate that we're actually sending a signal -- not "KILL"ing
things :).

Cheers,
	-Matt

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