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Message-ID: <20090528181715.GA2384@hallyn.com>
Date:	Thu, 28 May 2009 13:17:15 -0500
From:	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, xemul@...allels.com,
	containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/38] C/R: core stuff

Quoting Alexey Dobriyan (adobriyan@...il.com):
> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 06:44:36PM -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> > Quoting Alexey Dobriyan (adobriyan@...il.com):
> > > And since you guys showed that just idea of in-kernel checkpointing is not
> > > rejected outright, it doesn't mean that you can drag every single idea too.
> > 
> > Can you rephrase here?  I have no idea what you mean by 'drag every single
> > idea'
> 
>   									complexity
>  +-|------------------------------------------------|----------------------|-->
> hypervisor C/R					in-kernel C/R	C/R for unpriviledged
> 								C/R with "leaks"
> 
> I personally thought in-kernel C/R will be rejected outright, but it wasn't.
> This in theory doesn't mean other two issues should be accepted.

Note again that leaving c/R unprivileged was suggested (By Arnd)
as a way to keep us on our toes.  When it actually goes upstream
I would prefer it be under a new CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTART capability,
not CAP_SYS_ADMIN.

-serge
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