Hello, On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 04:01:07PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > So what is cgroup for? That is, what's the goal for what the new API > should be able to do?
It is a for controlling and distributing resources. That part doesn't change. It's just not built to be used directly by individual applications. It's an admin tool just like sysctl - be that admin be a human or userland base system. There's a huge chasm between something which can be generally used by normal applications and something which is restricted to admins and base systems in terms of interface generality and stability, security, how the abstractions fit together with the existing APIs and so on. cgroup firmly belongs to the former. It still serves the same purpose but isn't, in a way, developed enough to be used directly by individual applications and I'm not even sure we want or need to develop it to such a level. Thanks. -- tejun _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel