[CRIU] [PATCH] unix: allow --external unix[ino]:stub[string]

[Ruslan Kuprieiev]

On 02/28/2017 05:26 PM, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:

> On 02/28/2017 04:47 PM, Ruslan Kuprieiev wrote:
>> Needles to say it's useful for debug, but it is also
>> very useful when you syncronise checkpoint/restore
>> whith a dumpee using unix socketpair and want it to
>> painlessly receive notification on restore.
>>
>> I.e. on dump, if --external unix[ino]:foo is specified,
> Can you remind why it's a dump-time option, rather than the
> restore-time one?
>
Sure. Doing it on dump adds a benefit of not having to
remember anything for restore. If this option will be
available only on restore, I would have to remember
socket ino till restore to set up this option, which I'm
trying to avoid altogether.