Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC v7][PATCH 2/9] General infrastructure for checkpoint restart | From | Dave Hansen <> | Date | Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:42:32 -0700 |
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On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 07:03 -0400, Oren Laadan wrote: > > In our implementation, we simply refused to checkpoint setid > programs. > > True. And this works very well for HPC applications. > > However, it doesn't work so well for server applications, for > instance. > > Also, you could use file system snapshotting to ensure that the file > system view does not change, and still face the same issue. > > So I'm perfectly ok with deferring this discussion to a later time :)
Oren, is this a good place to stick a process_deny_checkpoint()? Both so we refuse to checkpoint, and document this as something that has to be addressed later?
-- Dave
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