Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/4] checkpoint-restart: general infrastructure | Date | Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:25:13 +0200 |
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On Monday 11 August 2008, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > One reason is that I suspect that stops us from being able to send that > data straight to a pipe to compress and/or send on the network, without > hitting local disk. Though if the checkpointfs was ram-based maybe not? > > As Oren has pointed out before, passing in an fd means we can pass a > socket into the syscall. > > Using the anon_inodes would also prevent that, but if it makes for a > cleaner overall solution then I'm not against considering either one > of course. >
With anon_inodes, you can still implement splice_read/splice_write, so you can splice it into a socket.
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