Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 19:31:32 +0400
From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
To: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] c/r: prctl: Add ability to set new mm_struct::exe_file
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On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 07:23:07PM +0400, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> On 02/29/2012 07:16 PM, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> > 
> > at restore time we would like to have a way for /proc/pid/exe
> > symlink recovering. So I thought extending prctl might be
> > a good idea.
> > 
> > Still maybe there some other good and 'right' way to do it,
> > so I would like to gather opinions.
> 
> If using the prctl for this, then taking a given file descriptor
> (with fcheck) instead of taking path and opening it in kernel is
> better.
> 

Sounds like a plan. Thanks Pavel!

	Cyrill
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