Re: C/R and stdio redirection

[Greg Kurz <gkurz-NmTC/0ZBporQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 10:41 +0200, Louis Rilling wrote:
> I think that this should be solved by a file substitution facility combined with
> an ability to ignore "unsupported files" at checkpoint.
> File substitution is the ability to tell sys_restart() to substitute some of
> caller's file descriptors to checkpointed file descriptors.
> Ignoring "unsupported files" means that the checkpoint could record that a given
> file descriptor was shared by some files_struct, but the file descriptor itself
> is not checkpointed because of various reasons, like file descriptor outside
> the container, unsupported file systems, etc.
> 

Metacluster (old IBM proprietary C/R solution) had also a similar
mechanism. This is the only sensible way to C/R a container with
inherited descriptors.

> Both of those mechanisms have been developed in Kerrighed, and Matthieu (in Cc)
> should start a discussion about this in the next weeks.
> 

Matthieu doesn't appear on the Cc line...

> Thanks,
> 
> Louis
> 

Regards.

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