> On Nov. 15, 2012, 10:11 p.m., Ben Mahler wrote:
> > src/linux/cgroups.hpp, line 193
> > <https://reviews.apache.org/r/8058/diff/1/?file=189976#file189976line193>
> >
> >     So this one is called 'kill' but it's for sending arbitrary signals to 
> > all processes in a cgroup? Do we enforce the signal is of type SIGKILL, 
> > SIGQUIT, etc.?
> 
> Benjamin Hindman wrote:
>     This is called 'kill' to provide the syscall 'kill' functionality for 
> cgroups (which already exists for processes and process groups). Since this 
> is for sending an arbitrary signal, it does not enforce only SIGKILL or 
> SIGQUIT.
>     
>     This primitive is useful for implementing a few of our primitives such as 
> 'destroy', but it also seemed generally useful, and thus worth providing.
>     
>     Note that I eliminated 'killTasks' because it shares a lot in common with 
> 'destroy' (and I felt having two very similar things would be more 
> confusing). Instead, I factored out the signal sending part of 'killTasks' 
> into 'kill'. My thought was that we can "extend" destroy in the future to 
> perform non-recursive destroys if we want to get some of the 'killTasks' 
> functionality back (which isn't needed outside of the cgroups.cpp).

I missed that this matches the kill syscall, sounds good.


> On Nov. 15, 2012, 10:11 p.m., Ben Mahler wrote:
> > src/linux/cgroups.cpp, line 626
> > <https://reviews.apache.org/r/8058/diff/1/?file=189977#file189977line626>
> >
> >     Hm.. this is kind of a backwards way to do error handling compared to 
> > how we do it everywhere else.
> >     
> >     Why the switch from Try<Nothing> to Option<string>?
> 
> Benjamin Hindman wrote:
>     First, this is different than 'checkHierarchy' which has been replaced 
> with 'mounted'.
>      
>     Second, this is an internal function that is being used to verify a 
> hierarchy (possibly a cgroup, and possibly a control) and return a formatted 
> error string if an error has occurred. (I suppose the comment above 'verify' 
> was insufficient, but this function is effectively called 
> "verifyOrReturnFormattedErrorString".) I choose not to return Try<Nothing> 
> because I wanted the semantics that the returned error string was "complete", 
> and I wouldn't need to add any contextual information at the call site. This 
> is not the case (or should not be the case) for other things that return 
> Try<*> (e.g., mkdir). In fact, this review includes numerous changes where 
> I'm adding missing contextual information.
>     
>     Said another way, 99.9% of all cases where we "propagate" an error from a 
> Try<*> we add some contextual information, and when that contextual 
> information is not there I (we) tend try and determine whether or not that is 
> okay or we need to add something (again, I did this a bunch in this review). 
> I didn't want to have to remember why I didn't include contextual information 
> for a Try<Nothing> returned from 'verify', so instead I choose to make the 
> returned error string more explicit.

Alright, I'd prefer to keep the consistency, but I see you put a lot of thought 
into this.


- Ben


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On Nov. 14, 2012, 11:57 p.m., Benjamin Hindman wrote:
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> (Updated Nov. 14, 2012, 11:57 p.m.)
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> 
> Review request for mesos, Vinod Kone and Ben Mahler.
> 
> 
> Description
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> 
> See summary.
> 
> 
> Diffs
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> 
>   src/linux/cgroups.hpp 1351134dc8b40fb7d7d692c4dd24f0efa24eadb0 
>   src/linux/cgroups.cpp 039e2b4121edc419e9f1a48a7c0b99ca77aa44ff 
>   src/slave/cgroups_isolation_module.cpp 
> 8211618d7729350654e2d17946c5b912ed9dda6a 
>   src/tests/assert.hpp 62fde12fa7ddddbbc9e8812f26314af5307a02df 
>   src/tests/cgroups_tests.cpp 85e81854a6767bad5c19f6411130d154c2870d99 
> 
> Diff: https://reviews.apache.org/r/8058/diff/
> 
> 
> Testing
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> 
> make check
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Benjamin Hindman
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