Another daemon for managing control groups [LWN.net]

Another daemon for managing control groups

Posted Dec 14, 2013 19:39 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Another daemon for managing control groups by HelloWorld
Parent article: Another daemon for managing control groups

It's not that they refuse to use it. They refuse to even discuss design of such a library, and say that if one were to exist they would ignore it.

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Another daemon for managing control groups

Posted Dec 14, 2013 21:18 UTC (Sat) by raven667 (guest, #5198) [Link]

What exactly would the abstraction layer be that such a library could provide, what code would be in it and what code would be needed to interface with it? This is pretty low level, if it can't effectively encapsulate complexity then there isn't any point. I'm not an expert but my guess is that for someone who is familiar with the systemd code base and the kernel interface they have an idea of what abstractions are possible and how useful they could be and decided that the cost/benefit isn't there to encapsulate this logic in a library.

How is this possible abstraction different than the dbus interface these tools are planning to provide?