Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:21:27 +0300 | Subject | Re: [RFC] fs, proc: Introduce the /proc/<pid>/map_files/ directory v2 | From | Pekka Enberg <> |
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On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> wrote: > From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> > > This one behaves similarly to the /proc/<pid>/fd/ one - it contains symlinks > one for each mapping with file, the name of a symlink is vma->vm_start, the > target is the file. Opening a symlink results in a file that point exactly > to the same inode as them vma's one. > > This thing is aimed to help checkpointing processes.
OK, but you really should explain _how_ this will help with checkpointing.
Pekka
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