> I'm totally not in a position to evaluate the completeness, desirability, > interest-level, etc of this patch, I'm afraid. This is an opportunity for > other stakeholders to weigh in..
Thanks Andrew! First, Job can work as a standalone kernel module. The current implementation provides the inescapable job container. Job provides global unique Job ID (jid) to processes in a cluster environment. Job initiation on Linux is performed via a PAM session module with authentication and security checks. Root level processes, or those with the CAP_SYS_RESOURCE capability, can create new jobs or escape from a job. Second, Job based batch schedulers or resource limit tools can take the advantage of the process control ability Job provides. Thrid, Job provides a registion mechanism to various accounting modules for setting and getting job based accounting information. CSA (Comprehensive System Accounting) is one example of the accounting modules, (CSA code maintainer Jay Lan is currently on vacation, he will be back at Feb. 1). We are pushing Job to linux kernel. If anybody has been using Job in your open source software, please respond to show the desirability and interest-level for Job, and we highly appreciate your suggestion on its completeness as well. Thank you! --Limin - 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/
