Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:20:31 +0400 | From | Cyrill Gorcunov <> | Subject | Re: [patch 5/5] elf: Add support for loading ET_CKPT files |
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On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 03:06:12PM +0400, Glauber Costa wrote: ... > exec() is a fundamental interface to the kernel, and the change > proposed here is too disruptive. Not only that, it is rather > unannounced: since not always one knows kind of fmt file is being > exec'd, it gets hard to infer which behavior to expect. >
This missed snipped in changelog indeed my very fault, sorry for that.
> I am wondering, though: if exec is a problem, but the binary handler > is not, maybe we can exec a process using this handler, and then > have the handler itself to create the thread hierarchy. This way we > avoid changing exec() behavior at all, yet achieving the same > results. > > What do you think? > >
Glauber, could you please elaborate, you mean to call for forks inside elf-chkpt handler, right? Or you mean something else?
Cyrill
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