Re: [Lse-tech] Re: A common layer for Accounting packages
From: Evgeniy Polyakov
Date: Mon Feb 28 2005 - 00:15:06 EST
On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 10:59 +0900, Kaigai Kohei wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > Yep, the netlink people should be able to help - they known what would be
> > required for not sending messages in case there is no listener registered.
> >
> > Maybe its already possible? I have never used netlink myself.
>
> If we notify the fork/exec/exit-events to user-space directly as you said,
> I don't think some hackings on netlink is necessary.
> For example, such packets is sent only when /proc/sys/.../process_grouping is set,
> and user-side daemon set this value, and unset when daemon will exit.
> It's not necessary to take too seriously.
Kernel accounting already was discussed in lkml week ago - I'm quite
sure Guillaume Thouvenin created exactly that.
His module creates do_fork() hook and broadcasts various process' states
over netlink.
Discussion at http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/2/17/87
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Evgeniy Polyakov
Crash is better than data corruption -- Arthur Grabowski
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