Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/4] checkpoint-restart: general infrastructure

[Dave Hansen]

On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 07:53 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > As Oren has pointed out before, passing in an fd means we can pass a
> > socket into the syscall.
> 
> If you do pass a socket, will it handle blocking correctly? Getting
> deadlocked task would be bad. What happens if I try to snapshot into
> /proc/self/fd/0 ? Or maybe restore from /proc/cmdline?

Heh, that's a good point.  What was the other code where we kept coming
up with deadlocks like that?  Anyone remember?

-- Dave

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