| Date | Tue, 15 Nov 2005 05:17:31 -0600 | From | Robin Holt <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] [PATCH 00/13] Introduce task_pid api |
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On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 03:23:41PM -0600, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > -- > > I'm part of a project implementing checkpoint/restart processes. > After a process or group of processes is checkpointed, killed, and > restarted, the changing of pids could confuse them. There are many > other such issues, but we wanted to start with pids.
Can't you just build a restart preloader which intercepts system calls and translates pids? Wouldn't this keep the kernel simpler and only affect those applications that are being restarted? Christoph, I added you since you seem to tirelessly promote using preloaders to work around this type of issue. Is it possible?
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