Re: [PATCH] nextfd(2)

[Cyrill Gorcunov]

On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 12:38:25PM +0400, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
> >>Can we add "pid" argument to be able to search next fd in other task?
> >>Together with sys_kcmp() this will be very useful for checkpoint/restore.
> >
> >That would raise all sorts of security questions unless protected, plus
> >its got races. If you want to do that and you have the rights you can do
> >it via procfs anyway.
> 
> Don't worry, I just asked. =) Seems like crtools dumps fd in the target-task context,
> so the current version is suitable.

Kind of ;) At moment we drain fds from dumpee task context to
our tool context and then dump them.

	Cyrill
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