From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Lezcano Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2][LXC] Rename --directory option to --statefile Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:54:38 +0100 Message-ID: <4B84E94E.3000406@fr.ibm.com> References: <20100224084108.GG18758@us.ibm.com> <4B84E80A.7060208@fr.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4B84E80A.7060208-NmTC/0ZBporQT0dZR+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: Cedric Le Goater Cc: Containers , Sukadev Bhattiprolu List-Id: containers.vger.kernel.org Cedric Le Goater wrote: > On 02/24/2010 09:41 AM, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote: >> [See following mail for an intro to this patch set >> >> https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/containers/2010-February/023048.html] >> >> >> The --directory is misleading since the option seems to expect >> an checkpoint image file. > > sigh. > > This has some major impact on our side as it is a 9 year old API ... > We'll look into it to see how painful it is to change. We can keep --directory and add --statefile. For --statefile option we can use a switch for IS_DIR, IS_REG. --directory becomes deprecated and we switch to the statefile option step by step. Does it make sense ? -- Daniel