Re: [PATCH 18/38] C/R: core stuff

From: Serge E. Hallyn
Date: Thu May 28 2009 - 14:12:03 EST


Quoting Alexey Dobriyan (adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx):
> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 06:44:36PM -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> > Quoting Alexey Dobriyan (adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx):
> > > And since you guys showed that just idea of in-kernel checkpointing is not
> > > rejected outright, it doesn't mean that you can drag every single idea too.
> >
> > Can you rephrase here? I have no idea what you mean by 'drag every single
> > idea'
>
> complexity
> +-|------------------------------------------------|----------------------|-->
> hypervisor C/R in-kernel C/R C/R for unpriviledged
> C/R with "leaks"
>
> I personally thought in-kernel C/R will be rejected outright, but it wasn't.
> This in theory doesn't mean other two issues should be accepted.

Note again that leaving c/R unprivileged was suggested (By Arnd)
as a way to keep us on our toes. When it actually goes upstream
I would prefer it be under a new CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTART capability,
not CAP_SYS_ADMIN.

-serge
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