RE: [PATCH] getrusage sucks

["Hua Zhong \(hzhong\)" <hzhong@cisco.com>]

The reason is what if tsk is no longer available when you call
getrusage? 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org 
> [mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of 
> Claudio Scordino
> Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 2:34 PM
> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org
> Subject: [PATCH] getrusage sucks
> 
> 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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