[CRIU] rewriting images via criu (or crit?)

[Cyrill Gorcunov]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 07:58:45AM -0500, Tycho Andersen wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 01:22:06PM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 12:13:06PM +0300, Ruslan Kuprieiev wrote:
> > > >As to me -- external tool for such modifications is better choise and it seems
> > > >crit is exactly fits here. This might have slight impact on the speed in compare
> > > >if the language would builtin into criu itself, but criu is already complex enough
> > > >so adding language engine here would simply overload I think.
> > > 
> > > I totally agree with Cyrill.
> > > 
> > > I like the syntax. Are you thinking about using crit like so:
> > > crit modify -i cgroup.img cgroup_entry.controllers["cpuset" in
> > > cnames]//properties[name="cpuset.cpus"] set value=0-1
> > > right?
> > 
> > I guess so. Also I would consider introdusing more human-readable
> > syntax if possible, but that's optional, up to you and Tycho.
> 
> Suggestions are welcome; I just picked this because xpath is the only
> language I could think of that has similar goals, so it might be
> something that people were familiar with.

Yeah. Anyway. lets wait a bit to gather more replies on the idea.