linux-kernel - Re: getrusage(RUSAGE

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Date:   Sat, 18 Jan 2020 20:17:10 +0300
From:   Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:     Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: getrusage(RUSAGE_BOTH)

On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 05:48:20PM +0100, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
...
> 
> If RUSAGE_BOTH is not supposed to be used, perhaps it should be removed
> from the uapi header?

Hi Rasmus! I don't remember from scratch the RUSAGE_BOTH context
(out of sources right now), but dropping it from uapi is definitely
a wrong way -- since it is used inside kernel we should consider
it as reserved value thus it should better live in uapi.