I see, I dont understand all the terminology here, which explains my
confusion. As long as neither the emacs daemon or client run as Root,
then that would take away my concern. Could you also elaborate on what
it is that runs as Root?
Blake Miller writes:
> 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.
>
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 4:22 PM T.V Raman <raman@google.com> wrote:
>
> > 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.
> > >
> > > Hmmm... an "unexec" that's not Emacs-specific, interesting,
> > >
> > >
> > > Stefan
> > >
> > >
> >
> > --
> >
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