Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] kernel-based checkpoint restart

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Fri Aug 08 2008 - 14:19:58 EST


On Friday 08 August 2008, Dave Hansen wrote:
> I don't think it is the common case.  Probably now when we're screwing
> around with it, but not in the future.  Do you think it is worth adding
> the pid=0 handling?

If it's the exception, probably not. Otherwise it would be a nice shortcut
to avoid having to do two system calls every time you write code using it.
Then again, there are probably not many programs calling it anyway, if it
get encapsulated in some user space tool.

Arnd <><
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