Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/4] checkpoint-restart: general infrastructure | From | Dave Hansen <> | Date | Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:43:34 -0700 |
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On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 00:39 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > The main problem I see with that would be atomicity: If you want multiple > processes to keep interacting with each other, you need to save them at > the same point in time, which gets harder as you split your interface into > more than a single file descriptor.
It could take ages to write out a checkpoint even to a single fd, so I suspect we'd have the exact same kinds of issues either way.
-- Dave
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