Re: [RFC v7][PATCH 2/9] General infrastructure for checkpointrestart

[Dave Hansen]

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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