[Devel] Re: [PATCH 1/2][LXC] Rename --directory option to --statefile

[Cedric Le Goater]

>>> This has some major impact on our side as it is a 9 year old API ...
>>> We'll look into it to see how painful it is to change.
>
> Ah, did not realize it caused that much pain.

bah. we should change anyway.

>> We can keep --directory and add --statefile.
>> For --statefile option we can use a switch for IS_DIR, IS_REG.
>>
>> --directory becomes deprecated and we switch to the statefile option
>> step by step.
>>
>> Does it make sense ?
>
> Yes, I think it will work.
>
> BTW, what was the rationale for a directory ?  Is it meant to be used
> with predefined file names in the specified directory ?

the mcr statefile use to be a directory, organized in such a way it was
easy to analyze its contents and easy to restart concurrently tasks
and shared states. it's still a directory but it's shrinking to be a
file and even a stream.

your request makes sense for the long term so we should take it.

c.
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