[Devel] Re: [PATCH 00/10] Containers(V10): Generic Process Containers

[Serge E. Hallyn]

Quoting Paul Menage (menage at google.com):
> On 6/4/07, Serge E. Hallyn <serue at us.ibm.com> wrote:
> >root at linuz11 root]# rm -rf /containers/1
> 
> Just use "rmdir /containers/1" here.

Hmm.  Ok, that works...  Odd, I thought rm -rf used to work in the past,
but i'm likely wrong.

thanks,
-serge

> >Ah, I see the second time I typed 'ls /containers/1/tasks' instead of
> >cat.  When I then used cat, the file was empty, and I got an oops just
> >like Pavel reported.  I bet if I solve the problem he reported, then I
> >solve my problem  :)
> >
> 
> As far as I could see, Pavel's problem wasn't actually an Oops, it was
> a WARN_ON() when allocating a zero length chunk of memory. There's
> ongoing discussion as to whether this counts as a problem with the
> allocators or the kmalloc() code, since it used to be OK to allocate a
> zero-length chunk.
> 
> Paul