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Re: PID caching problem
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Mike Frysinger<vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 July 2009 10:34:46 Michele Alberti wrote:
>> > this sounds like simply one edge case with the PID value. ?fixing it wont
>> > fix all the other problems. ?better to use the generic methods discussed
>> > on LKML for restoring processes at runtime with the original PID value.
>>
>> Do you have a link to that LKML discussion?
>
> sorry, i dont have a link off the top of my head. ?try searching for like
> "clone pid" and "checkpoint" and perhaps "vserver".
There is a long ranging discussion called "checkpoint/restart" which
discusses the required infrastructure to make this work reliably.
See also:
https://ftg.lbl.gov/CheckpointRestart/CheckpointRestart.shtml
Cheers,
Carlos.