On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 15:46 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Guillaume Thouvenin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > This module sends a signal to one or several processes (in user > > space) when a fork occurs in the kernel. It relays information about > > forks (parent and child pid) to a user space application. > > > > ... > > This patch is used by the Enhanced Linux System Accounting tool > > that can be downloaded from http://elsa.sf.net > > So this permits ELSA to maintain a complete picture of the > process/thread hierarchy?
Yes it does. > Implementation-wise: there's a lot of code there and the interface is > a bit > awkward. Why not just feed that kobject you have there into > kobject_uevent()? There isn't good reason and as kobject_uevent is here to notify user space application by sending event through the netlink interface we can add a new event (KOBJ_FORK) and send the fork creation by using this interface. I agree with your comment and I'm working on this solution. Thank you very much for your help, Regards, Guillaume - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
