[coyotos-dev] Binary naming

Jonathan S. Shapiro shap at eros-os.com
Fri Apr 11 10:08:09 CDT 2008


On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 10:51 -0400, Christopher Nelson wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 15:45 -0400, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> > It isn't clear that any equivalent to the process status command should
> > even *exist* in Coyotos. One user has no intrinsic right to examine the
> > processes of another, or even to examine the process substructure of
> > their own applications!
> 
> What about management applications?  Presumably there will need to be a
> way to view all processes executing in order to drop runaway processes,
> or perhaps to do some accounting.

Why? If the goal is to do resource management and accounting, then what
you want to look at is the resource consumption pools. It is none of
your business how many, or how few, processes a given application
internally constructs out of its storage.

They aren't your processes.

shap



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