[CRIU] [PATCH v5 2/3] Do not error out in RPC mode with wrong config file entries

Adrian Reber adrian at lisas.de
Wed Jan 9 00:12:38 MSK 2019


On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 12:15:57PM -0800, Andrei Vagin wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 06:14:23PM +0000, Radostin Stoyanov wrote:
> > On 02/01/2019 17:36, Adrian Reber wrote:
> > >>>> Yes and no. I understand the sshd reasons, but they can be applied to
> > >>>> criu restore, but not to criu dump, IMHO.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Our goal is to not loose states of processes:
> > >>>> 1. criu dump doesn't have to be destructive:
> > >>>>   * in case of any error, processes have to continue running
> > >>>>   * it is better to fail rather than dump wrong or incomplete state
> > >>>>
> > >>>> 2. sometimes we really may want to restore processes even if there is
> > >>>> some problem
> > >>> That is a very good point, I agree with you.
> > >>>
> > >>> Is it OK to close https://github.com/checkpoint-restore/criu/issues/578
> > >>> with the explanation above?
> > >> I would like to know what Adrian is thinking about this.
> > > The whole series was just trying to help with Radostin's 'bug'. But if
> > > nobody sees this as a problem we can drop the whole thing.
> > >
> > I understand that we want criu to exit with an error when we have
> > unknown options in config files, thus we can drop PATCH v5 2/3 and 3/3.
> > 
> > However, I think that PATCH v5 1/3 (Printout early log messages) is useful.
> > Is there a reason why we don't want this patch?
> 
> We want it!

Okay, let me check the status of this and include the changes you sent
some time ago and resent.

		Adrian


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