[CRIU] Questions in CRIU restore mechanism.

Pavel Emelyanov xemul at parallels.com
Mon Apr 1 04:19:56 EDT 2013


>> Consoles are also tricky. So far we've supported only ptys (and there are
>> still issues with it). Dumping /dev/console can be done, but yet again --
>> carefully with proper status-fetch of the console. What are the
>> major:minor pair for the /dev/console you're having in your case?
> 
> The console device has 5:1 device number.
> 
> -sh-4.1# ls -al /dev/console
> crw------- 1 root root 5, 1 Jan  1 09:00 /dev/console

Hm... It's a "real" console. I suppose this one can be treated as a regular file
when dumping and restoring.

Thanks,
Pavel


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