Re: [PATCH v3 12/12] [RFC] perf, persistent: ioctl functions tocontrol persistency

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Tue Aug 27 2013 - 08:48:13 EST


On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 02:41:46PM +0200, Robert Richter wrote:
> We still have multiple users after 'claiming' the event. The only
> thing is that the event will be destroyed after all users went away. A
> process (that claimed the event) was responsible for this.

Ok, if the "claimer" process which owns the event dies for some reason,
then I'm guessing some other event can claim it on its own, i.e.
processes can claim events among each other...

> I still prefer claim/unclaim. ;)

Oh well, whatever, as long as it not misleading :-)

--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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