Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Resend -v2 - Use procfs to change a syscall behavior

[Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey-6ktuUTfB/bM@public.gmane.org>]

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Nadia.Derbey-6ktuUTfB/bM@public.gmane.org writes:
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>>This patchset is a part of an effort to change some syscalls behavior for
>>checkpoint restart.
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> Thanks for doing this.
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> Unfortunately this makes a very good case of why we don't want to go down
> this route.  Adding magic parameters to syscalls that are only useful
> in one very specific restart case.
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> We need good clean interfaces with well defined semantics.
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> Something as narrow focused on this is not really useful and it takes
> a lot of code to do something very few people will want to actively
> do.

All this seems reasonable.
Ok, so since we are taking the "new syscalls" direction, I'll try to 
make a list of the potentially duplicated syscalls.

Regards,
Nadia

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>>The syntax is:
>># echo "LONG1 XX" > /proc/self/task/<my_tid>/next_syscall_data
>>     next object to be created will have an id set to XX
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> Which his horrible in another way because it is hugely race prone.
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> Eric
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