Re: [patch 5/5] elf: Add support for loading ET_CKPT files

[Cyrill Gorcunov]

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 03:06:12PM +0400, Glauber Costa wrote:
...
> exec() is a fundamental interface to the kernel, and the change
> proposed here is too disruptive. Not only that, it is rather
> unannounced: since not always one knows kind of fmt file is being
> exec'd, it gets hard to infer which behavior to expect.
> 

This missed snipped in changelog indeed my very fault, sorry for that.

> I am wondering, though: if exec is a problem, but the binary handler
> is not, maybe we can exec a process using this handler, and then
> have the handler itself to create the thread hierarchy. This way we
> avoid changing exec() behavior at all, yet achieving the same
> results.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> 

Glauber, could you please elaborate, you mean to call for forks inside
elf-chkpt handler, right? Or you mean something else?

	Cyrill
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