systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

Casey Dahlin cdahlin at redhat.com
Tue Jun 14 17:48:35 UTC 2011


On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 01:55:08PM +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> With sufficient amount of nutty hackery it may be possible to figure is
> out, but it will be either racy, or will require labeling (process
> groups? session ids? cgroups?) which, in general, is not reliable:
> processes can escape from that.
> 

Cgroups. And it is reliable. And processes cannot escape it. That's part
of why Cgroups were created, because all of the other options you
mentioned have precisely the flaw you point out. Cgroups does not.

--CJD


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