From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Smith Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] c/r: define s390-specific checkpoint-restart code (v5) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:53:16 -0800 Message-ID: <87fxi3lfpf.fsf@caffeine.danplanet.com> References: <1235500639-9597-1-git-send-email-danms@us.ibm.com> <1235500639-9597-3-git-send-email-danms@us.ibm.com> <20090224193737.GB24007@us.ibm.com> <87k57flib8.fsf@caffeine.danplanet.com> <20090224200939.GB26259@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20090224200939.GB26259-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> (Serge E. Hallyn's message of "Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:09:39 -0600") 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: "Serge E. Hallyn" Cc: containers-qjLDD68F18O7TbgM5vRIOg@public.gmane.org List-Id: containers.vger.kernel.org SH> Or do you mean the programmers will see that and be able to tell SH> more easiliy where in ptrace.h the corresponding union is? Right, I was thinking about it from the point of view of letting the user of that structure (which could be in userspace) know what the contents are. In other words, I don't see why we should have some of the fields be opaque outside of the kernel and not others (not including any that really can't be interpreted by userspace in a meaningful way). -- Dan Smith IBM Linux Technology Center email: danms-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org