[systemd-devel] [Tracker] How to use cgroups for Tracker?

[Lennart Poettering]

On Thu, 23.10.14 13:31, Philip Van Hoof (philip at codeminded.be) wrote:

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> On 23/10/2014 13:01, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > On Thu, 23.10.14 11:40, Martyn Russell (martyn at lanedo.com) wrote:
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> >> I know it's a hard problem to solve, but if it's not solved with
> >> the proposed solutions, the kernel developers shouldn't really be
> >> accepting them.
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> > Well, if it doesn't work, fix it! IIRC you have a business interest
> > in tracker. Kernel interfaces don't fix themselves magically. They
> > usual get fixed if somebody scratches his own itch, or if somebody
> > with a business interest pays somebody to scratch his itch...
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> I think many people are reluctant to start working on this because the
> kernel people don't know themselves yet what they would accept in the
> kernel. But I agree it's a chicken and egg problem and probably in the
> end even more a funding problem (or it just doesn't itch us enough).

Well, there's only one way to figure out what is acceptable in the
end: starting working on it...

> And then perhaps on top of that, in userspace, something like
> fsevents. Or would the kernel world trust a coalescing fanotify enough
> to allow unprivileged users of it?

To my knowledge the plan has always been to open this up for
unpriviliged processes eventually...

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat