From: Jeff D. <jd...@ka...> - 2001-07-04 21:53:07
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pp...@pp... said: > Is there any possibility to implement a copy-on-write facility for UML > filesystems, or for the underlying files? Yes there is. I have a reasonable-looking patch from Greg Lonnon which implements COW in the ubd driver. I'll integrate it after I have 2.4.6 out of the way. > Is killing the tracing thread enough to guarantee that the rest of the > processes (and uml_net) die too? It seems to be effective at killing all the subthreads, although I'm not sure why, exactly. uml_net should die, too, since it exits when its UML socket dies. > PS: what happened to the proposal of making the mconsole socket name > the same as the umid? I have a decent patch from Henrik Nordstrom which does that. That'll be coming out after I deal with 2.4.6 as well. > Right now I'm using a very crude thing: fuser -k'ing the mconsole > socket which seems to work, but it's not very elegant... The mconsole halt should also work if the UML is alive enough to respond to interrupts. The pid file can be used to figure out the tracing thread so you can kill it. Jeff |