From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754704AbXI3GbJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Sep 2007 02:31:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751490AbXI3Ga6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Sep 2007 02:30:58 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.168]:39539 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751444AbXI3Ga5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Sep 2007 02:30:57 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ksuzpIoowyQbKH+BVbloonwahFi26+McOI83IGVajxnWXSZ24N5K4purimXxkQ2vcVoVMTiqYztL03uGRVlSE0Y2qS23ZqtN4Jd/LgdzXV76AUAY3G3i++B9IGaKZmTqYN5S5Wp27mJ78CZzzpegP6S151m/booztO2R5GJWeqs= Message-ID: <517f3f820709292330i56caf106yfa18778d741f8e1a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 08:30:55 +0200 From: "Michael Kerrisk" To: "Pierre Peiffer" Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/2] New API to change the IDs of an existing IPC Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, containers@lists.osdl.org, mtk-manpages@gmx.net In-Reply-To: <20070928165829.5da76796.Pierre.Peiffer@bull.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070928165829.5da76796.Pierre.Peiffer@bull.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Pierre, > As I'm seeing some discussion/interest about IPC, I would like to propose > these patches, which provide an easy way to change the ID of an exiting IPC. > This work is done around the checkpoint/restart of applications. In the case of > the IPCs, we need (among others) this functionality. Can you give some more detailed explanation of why this functionaility is needed. (Maybe this was explained in other threads, but if so I've missed it.) Cheers, Michael