On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 11:51:37AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) [131029 03:15]: > > Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg@debian.org> writes: > > > my apologies for not replying to any messages within the thread, but I > > > think my mail is orthogonal to the other messages. > > > Lennart Poettering wrote about the systemd upstream point of view on the > > > discussion we are currently having: > > > https://plus.google.com/115547683951727699051/posts/8RmiAQsW9qf > > This is a valuable post. Thank you for the pointer! I would be > > interested in seeing the two core technical arguments there (cgroup > > handling and how D-Bus services are handled) addressed by the upstart > > position paper, particularly if there are plans that Lennart isn't aware > > of for how that functionality will be provided. > I'm wondering how much libcgroup matches (or not) the role of cgroup > handling - I use that in a different environment quite successfully, > but that might be just me and not the full answer for everybody. It does not. The impending kernel transition is that there should be a single process managing the cgroup heirarchy on behalf of userspace; the existing libcgroup is a library that lets individual processes interface with /sys/fs/cgroup, not an implementor of the userspace cgroup manager service. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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