[libvirt] [PATCH] Add APIs for killing off processes inside a cgroup

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 11:17:05AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 02/22/2011 10:55 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > The virCgroupKill method kills all PIDs found in a cgroup
> > 
> > The virCgroupKillRecursively method does this recursively
> > for child cgroups.
> > 
> > The virCgroupKillPainfully method does a recursive kill
> > several times in a row until everything has really died
> 
> Do we really need three APIs, or can we just have:
> 
> virCgroupKill(..., VIR_CGROUP_KILL_RECURSIVE | VIR_CGROUP_KILL_PAINFUL)

The last method loops, calling into the 2nd method, and the
2nd method loops, calling into the 1st, so architecturally
it doesn't work to have only one method with flags.

Daniel
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