Re: cgroups(7): documenting /sys/kernel/cgroup files

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Wed Jan 10 2018 - 12:34:04 EST


Hello, Michael.

On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 06:31:20PM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> So, I am confused. According to Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt,
> cgoup.threads is delegated:
>
> [[
> Model of Delegation
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> A cgroup can be delegated in two ways. First, to a less privileged
> user by granting write access of the directory and its "cgroup.procs",
> "cgroup.threads" and "cgroup.subtree_control" files to the user.
> Second, if the "nsdelegate" mount option is set, automatically to a
> cgroup namespace on namespace creation.
> ]]
>
> So, is that a mistake in that text file?

Yes, it is. I probably copy&pasted from an earlier version where we
were marking threaded domains instead of threaded roots. Will fix it
right away.

Thanks.

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tejun