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authorLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>2008-07-04 12:59:55 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-07-04 13:40:08 -0400
commitbef67c5a7d3a9c45e091e36625c09c0c811e2672 (patch)
tree9e26d7896d6bf96ac8f65cf1b47955601705a921 /Documentation
parent4e0d13cbb71de2b1baf71ddd3c14f7ba8da810e5 (diff)
cgroups: document the effect of attaching PID 0 to a cgroup
Document that a pid of zero(0) can be used to refer to the current task when attaching a task to a cgroup, as in the following usage: # echo 0 > /dev/cgroup/tasks This is consistent with existing cpuset behavior. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Acked-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -390,6 +390,10 @@ If you have several tasks to attach, you have to do it one after another:
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391# /bin/echo PIDn > tasks 391# /bin/echo PIDn > tasks
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393You can attach the current shell task by echoing 0:
394
395# echo 0 > tasks
396
3933. Kernel API 3973. Kernel API
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