[CRIU] [PATCH 0/4] criu2text

[Cyrill Gorcunov]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 07:59:28PM +0400, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> On 09/17/2014 07:56 PM, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 02:50:41AM +0300, Ruslan Kuprieiev wrote:
> >> criu2text is a program written in python to convert criu images
> >> to/from human readable format. From .img file it produces directory
> >> with files: magic, 0, 1... File named magic has only criu image magic
> >> in hex (0x1234) format. Files 0,1... are protobuf messages in protobuf
> >> text format. Number of files N depends on number of pb entrys stored
> >> in image file.
> > 
> > Mind to point why we need this at all? I mean "criu show" already does
> > almost the same. no?
> 
> CRIU show doesn't allow to encode text back into pb file.

Why do we need to modify images at all, just because we can? Don't get
me wrong I simply don't understand the usage scenario.