[Devel] Re: [PATCH] [RFC] Add c/r support for listening INET sockets

[Oren Laadan]

Dan Smith wrote:
> This is an incremental step towards supporting checkpoint/restart on
> AF_INET sockets.  In this scenario, any sockets that were in TCP_LISTEN
> state are restored as they were.  Any that were connected are forced to
> TCP_CLOSE.  This should cover a range of use cases that involve
> applications that are tolerant of such an interruption.
> 

It's important to mention that pending connections - those that were
received and are awaiting to be accepted on the listening socket are
not handled either (does checkpoint fail or ignore them ?)

Oren.

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