[CRIU] [PATCH 3/3] signalfd: add ability to read siginfo-s without dequeuing signals (v2)

Pavel Emelyanov xemul at parallels.com
Tue Feb 12 09:50:03 EST 2013


>>> Process checkpointing needs to bite the bullet and
>>> create its own API instead.
>>
>> This is bad approach as well. What we should do is come up with a sane
>> API that makes sense without the checkpoint-restore project _when_ _possible_.
> 
> Coming up with a sane API in general isn't easy.

That's what we've put the linux-api@ in Cc for ;)

[snip]

> Compared to this, ptrace-attaching to the process
> and then reading from /proc or issuing a new ptrace request
> looks much cleaner.

Sure it does! Also note, that it also looks much cleaner than the
fancy /proc/pid/checkpoint thing you propose.

> My opinion, of course.

Thanks,
Pavel


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