>>> This has some major impact on our side as it is a 9 year old API ... >>> We'll look into it to see how painful it is to change. > > Ah, did not realize it caused that much pain. bah. we should change anyway. >> We can keep --directory and add --statefile. >> For --statefile option we can use a switch for IS_DIR, IS_REG. >> >> --directory becomes deprecated and we switch to the statefile option >> step by step. >> >> Does it make sense ? > > Yes, I think it will work. > > BTW, what was the rationale for a directory ? Is it meant to be used > with predefined file names in the specified directory ? the mcr statefile use to be a directory, organized in such a way it was easy to analyze its contents and easy to restart concurrently tasks and shared states. it's still a directory but it's shrinking to be a file and even a stream. your request makes sense for the long term so we should take it. c. _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers
