Deprecation

This page collects stuff that is considered to be deprecated (and is about to be removed)

Current plan

Per-pid rlimits, itimers and posix_timers image file

Now all this stuff sit in the core entry

Separate image file for epoll tfds

It's now merged into epoll image

The criu exec action

Should be deprecated with Compel

Per-PID logs

Not sure whether anybody is using it

No file records for ttys

See collect_one_tty(). Older versions of criu didn't have reg_file_entry for ttys.

Already deprecated stuff

The criu show action

Deprecated in with CRIT in 2.0

No ids.img files

We've been writing these files since at least v0.4, deprecated since 2.1

The --namespaces option

It was used when we didn't have /proc/pid/ns stuff, now it's useless, removed in 2.2

Per-pid fdinfo.img file

The new layout (marked with respective bit in inventory) is per-fdtable-id, removed in 2.4

Per-pid file locks

Now all locks sit in the file-locks.img file, removed in 2.4

Old page-read

Used at ancient times when no pagemaps existed, removed in 2.4

See also

What's bad with V1 images