Re: [Ksummit-2010-discuss] checkpoint-restart: naked patch

From: Alexey Dobriyan
Date: Fri Nov 19 2010 - 11:27:51 EST


On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> The paragon of absurdity is struct task_struct::did_exec .
>
> Yeah, then go and figure how to do that in a way which would be useful
> for other purposes too instead of trying to shove the whole
> checkpointer inside the kernel.  It sure would be harder but hey
> that's the way it is.

System call for one bit? This is ridiculous.
Doing execve(2) for userspace C/R is ridicoulous too (and likely doesn't work).
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