Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc4-mm1] end-of-proces handling for acct-csa

[Guillaume Thouvenin]

On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 10:56 -0800, Jay Lan wrote:
> The exit hook is essential for CSA to save off data before the data
> is gone, A netlink type of thing does not help. BSD is in the same
> situation. You can not replace the acct_process() call with a netlink.
> If ELSA is to use the enhanced accounting data, it needs the CSA
> eop handling at exit as well.

Why replace the acct_process()? The problem here is to add a new hook in
the do_fork() and you can use the BSD accounting hook acct_process()
which is already in the exit() routine. We don't need to replace it with
a netlink because today there are no user space applications that need
it. 

Best regards,
Guillaume 

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