On Tue, 16.11.10 18:39, Ted Ts'o (tytso@mit.edu) wrote:

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> 
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:19:09PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > Well, my plan was actually to by default put everything into its own
> > group, and then let users opt-out of that for specific processes, if the
> > want to.
> 
> How many users are likely to do this, though?
> 
> I think you really want to make this be something which the
> application can specify by default that they should start in their own
> cgroup.  One idea might be to it to the applications menu entry:
> 
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/
> 
> ... so there would be a new key value pair, "start_in_cgroup", that
> would allow the user to start an application in their own cgroup.  It
> would be up to the desktop launcher to honor that if it was present.

This is pretty much in line with what I want to do, except I want
opt-out, not opt-in behaviour here.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.
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