On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 04:53:15PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: >> Seems sane. Could we please get it tested and get a full description in >> place? Something which provides enough detail for the manpage maintainers. >> Also, a quick comparison between Linux's RUSAGE_THREAD and $other-os's >> implementations would reduce the possibility of silly, cast-in-stone >> incompatabilities.
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 05:42:01PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > The latter is the more serious of the two. I'll go about investigating > that as the primary task here. Testing and a more verbose patch > description are clearly very little work. > General maintenance-relevant commentary: This patch arose from an > observation of a lacuna in the API. There are no bugs or apps broken > awaiting this as a fix, so it's not needed by 2.6.22 or otherwise > urgently. My use for it is report generation in VM (and possibly other) > testcases. The ack-in-concept is good enough for me to go about > sweeping up the OS/standards compatibility, testing, and documentation > issues in the near future prior to resubmission. A sort of note for me to refer back to when I get the rest of the way here. AIX does this with getrusage(RUSAGE_THREAD,...), Solaris with getrusage(RUSAGE_LWP,...), Tru64 and HP-UX seem to lack any obvious way to do this at all, likewise for MacOS X and the opensource BSD's. -- wli - 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/
