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

[Glauber Costa]

On 10/21/2011 03:20 PM, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> 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?

not fork(), clone().

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