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Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:10:26 +0100 From: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com> CC: Kirill Korotaev <dev@...allels.com>, Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@...onical.com>, Kapil Arya <kapil@....neu.edu>, Gene Cooperman <gene@....neu.edu>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Pavel Emelianov <xemul@...allels.com>, "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>, Linux Containers <containers@...ts.osdl.org> Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2010-discuss] checkpoint-restart: naked patch On 11/19/2010 05:01 PM, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com> wrote: >>>> - setting different statistics counters (like netdev stats etc.) >>>> and so on... >>> >>> Why would this matter? >> >> Because you'll introduce million stupid interfaces not interesting to >> anyone but C/R. > > Just like CLONE_SET_PID. Well, if you ask me, having pidns w/o a way to reinstate PID from userland is pretty silly and you and I might not know yet but it's quite imaginable that there will be other use cases for the capability unlike in-kernel CR. Kernel provides building blocks not the whole frigging package and for very good reasons. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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