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From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 11/12] cgroups: Allow subsystems to cancel a fork
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On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 02:09:41PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue,  6 Sep 2011 02:13:05 +0200
> Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Let the subsystem's fork callback return an error value so
> > that they can cancel a fork. This is going to be used by
> > the task counter subsystem to implement the limit.
> 
> This breaks the build quite gruesomely with CONFIG_CGROUPS=n.  I looked
> at doing a quick fix but that would just have piled ugly on ugly.
> 

Sorry about that. I'm fixing the whole so that it builds with or
without cgroups. 

I'm also improving the documentation and changelog along the way.

Thanks.