linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] new cgroup controller "fork"

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Message-ID: <20111103182101.5037c1e5@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:	Thu, 3 Nov 2011 18:21:01 +0000
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Max Kellermann <max@...mpel.org>
Cc:	Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] new cgroup controller "fork"

> After little discussion, nobody seemed to be interested in it, and
> nobody merged it.  I reposted it today, not knowing somebody else had
> come up with a similar idea meanwhile.

I don't really see a meaningful use case for this. Why should millions of
users have this stuff in their kernel. What's the general purpose use
case we should all be excited about ?

Alan
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