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> * Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de> [2010-11-20 16:41:01]:
>
> > On Sat, 20.11.10 09:55, Balbir Singh (
balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com) wrote:
> >
> > > > However, I am not sure I like the idea of having pollable files like that,
> > > > because in the systemd case I am very much interested in getting
> > > > recursive notifications, i.e. I want to register once for getting
> > > > notifications for a full subtree instead of having to register for each
> > > > cgroup individually.
> > > >
> > > > My personal favourite solution would be to get a netlink msg when a
> > > > cgroup runs empty. That way multiple programs could listen to the events
> > > > at the same time, and we'd have an easy way to subscribe to a whole
> > > > hierarchy of groups.
> > >
> > > The netlink message should not be hard to do if we agree to work on
> > > it. The largest objections I've heard is that netlink implies
> > > network programming and most users want to be able to script in
> > > their automation and network scripting is hard.
> >
> > Well, the notify_on_release stuff cannot be dropped anyway at this point
> > in time, so netlink support would be an addition to, not a replacement for
> > the current stuff that might be useful for scripting folks.
>
> Agreed, we still need the old notify_on_release. Are you suggesting
> that for scripting we use the old interface and newer tools use
> netlink?
