I'd never run emacs as root either. CRIU has to run as root, but the processes it creates when restoring a snapshot are regular non-root processes, just like the one that was checkpointed.
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
the biggest drawback I saw at a quick-read was the need to run as root,
I'd never run emacs as root.>> As the name suggests, it can provide you with the fastest emacs startup
>> time in the west, by using CRIU checkpoint/restore to "clone" emacsen.
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> Hmmm... an "unexec" that's not Emacs-specific, interesting,
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