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

[Christopher Covington]

On 10/21/2014 08:58 AM, 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.

What about just running tools like patch, sed, or awk on the unpacked files?

Chris

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