Re: [RFC][PATCH 8/8] check files for checkpointability

[Serge E. Hallyn]

Quoting Dave Hansen (dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx):
> On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 11:22 -0600, Nathan Lynch wrote:
> > No.. I mean what if a process 1234 does
> > 
> > f = fopen("/proc/1234/stat", "r");
> > 
> > and is then checkpointed.  Can that path be resolved during restart,
> > before pid 1234 is alive?
> 
> Heh, that's a good one.
> 
> It does mean that we can't do restore like this:
> 
> 	for_each_cr_task()
> 		restore_task_struct()
> 		restore_files()
> 		...
> 
> We have to do:
> 
> 	for_each_cr_task()
> 		restore_task_struct()
> 	for_each_cr_task()
> 		restore_files()
> 
> 
> -- Dave

Which is what we actually do, right?

Actually we have userspace create the tasks first, and
then each task calls sys_restart which does restore_files().

-serge
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