From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Oren Laadan Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] Add c/r support for listening INET sockets Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:49:10 -0400 Message-ID: <4AC280D6.3020302@librato.com> References: <1254164330-23072-1-git-send-email-danms@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1254164330-23072-1-git-send-email-danms-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: containers-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org Errors-To: containers-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org To: Dan Smith Cc: containers-qjLDD68F18O7TbgM5vRIOg@public.gmane.org, Andrew Morton List-Id: containers.vger.kernel.org Dan Smith wrote: > This is an incremental step towards supporting checkpoint/restart on > AF_INET sockets. In this scenario, any sockets that were in TCP_LISTEN > state are restored as they were. Any that were connected are forced to > TCP_CLOSE. This should cover a range of use cases that involve > applications that are tolerant of such an interruption. > It's important to mention that pending connections - those that were received and are awaiting to be accepted on the listening socket are not handled either (does checkpoint fail or ignore them ?) Oren.