On Friday 11 November 2005 00:47, Hua Zhong (hzhong) wrote:
> The reason is what if tsk is no longer available when you call
> getrusage?
Sorry, but honestly I don't see any problem: as you can see from my patch, if
tsk is no longer available, getrusage returns -1 and sets errno appropriately
(equal to EINVAL, which means that who is invalid).
Claudio
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> >
> > Does exist any _real_ reason why getrusage can't be invoked
> > by a task to know
> > statistics of another task ?
> >
> > The changes would be very trivial, as shown by the following patch.
> >
> > Claudio
> >
> >
> > diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
> > --- a/kernel/sys.c
> > +++ b/kernel/sys.c
> > @@ -1746,9 +1746,13 @@ int getrusage(struct task_struct *p, int
> >
> > asmlinkage long sys_getrusage(int who, struct rusage __user *ru)
> > {
> > - if (who != RUSAGE_SELF && who != RUSAGE_CHILDREN)
> > - return -EINVAL;
> > - return getrusage(current, who, ru);
> > + if (who != RUSAGE_SELF && who != RUSAGE_CHILDREN) {
> > + struct task_struct* tsk = find_task_by_pid(who);
> > + if (tsk == NULL)
> > + return -EINVAL;
> > + return getrusage(tsk, RUSAGE_SELF, ru);
> > + } else
> > + return getrusage(current, who, ru);
> > }
> >
> > asmlinkage long sys_umask(int mask)
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