Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 00/13] Introduce task_pid api
From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
To: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: "SERGE E. HALLYN [imap]" <serue@us.ibm.com>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Hubertus Franke <frankeh@watson.ibm.com>, hch@infradead.org
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Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:01:04 +0100
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On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 05:17 -0600, Robin Holt wrote:
> Can't you just build a restart preloader which intercepts system calls
> and translates pids?  Wouldn't this keep the kernel simpler and only
> affect those applications that are being restarted?  Christoph, I
> added you since you seem to tirelessly promote using preloaders to
> work around this type of issue.  Is it possible?

Statically linked applications really throw a pretty big monkey wrench
into that kind of plan.  I'd hate to give up on _any_ statically linked
app from the beginning.

-- Dave

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