[CRIU] [PATCH 1/2] Add stopexec

[Christopher Covington]

Hi Pavel,

On 08/21/2015 05:49 PM, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> On 08/18/2015 06:48 PM, Christopher Covington wrote:
>> stopexec allows one to dump a checkpoint of a process just before it
>> starts, capturing command line arguments, environment variables, and
>> inherited file descriptors. While this can be done with a sufficiently
>> sophisticated shell script, putting this data in CRIU format allows
>> the start of a program to be treated in the same manner as resuming at
>> all other points in an applications execution must be treated--by
>> dumping and restoring a checkpoint.
> 
> Well, this is definitely a useful tool, but I'm not sure these has to
> sit in the criu repository. We've had the same story with criu-to-core
> conversion tool some time ago and decided to put it aside.
> 
> I have a separate repo on github (https://github.com/xemul/criu-scripts)
> where I put all the stuff that is not so tied to criu to be merged
> into the main repo, but that I use to play with criu. If you want, we
> can put this into criu-scripts too, I'm sore other guys will state
> the values of them.

Sounds good to me. I'll rebase and resubmit.

Christopher Covington

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