From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753747AbYDWPdg (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:33:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751991AbYDWPd1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:33:27 -0400 Received: from e35.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.153]:33301 "EHLO e35.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751588AbYDWPd0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:33:26 -0400 Subject: Re: Checkpoint/restart (was Re: [PATCH 0/4] - v2 - Object creation with a specified id) From: Dave Hansen To: Kirill Korotaev Cc: containers@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nadia.Derbey@bull.net, Andrew Morton , nick@nick-andrew.net, Alexey Dobriyan In-Reply-To: <480ED9D5.1010906@parallels.com> References: <20080418054459.891481000@bull.net> <20080422193612.GA15835@martell.zuzino.mipt.ru> <1208890580.17117.14.camel@nimitz.home.sr71.net> <20080422210130.GA15937@martell.zuzino.mipt.ru> <1208904967.17117.51.camel@nimitz.home.sr71.net> <480ED9D5.1010906@parallels.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:33:18 -0700 Message-Id: <1208964798.17117.72.camel@nimitz.home.sr71.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 10:40 +0400, Kirill Korotaev wrote: > Having all this functionality in a signle syscall we specifically CLAIM a black box, > and that no one can use this interfaces for something different from checkpoint/restore. > > So I think we have to know what other maintainers think before we can go. I completely agree. Have you asked any particular maintainers what they think? -- Dave