[Devel] Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] Container Freezer

[Cedric Le Goater]

Dave Hansen wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 17:07 +0200, Cedric Le Goater wrote:
>> This patchset is a prototype using the container infrastructure and
>> the swsusp freezer to freeze a group of tasks. 
> 
> And this is useful because you don't want processes doing anything while
> you try to checkpoint them, right? ;)

right there's always a reason for a patchset :) The freezer is something 
already used by openvz. IBM's Metacluster uses a from kernel SIGSTOP signal. 

I would be in favor of adding a new c/r signal like other operating systems 
have done today and in the past. This is something to discuss.

C. 
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