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+The following people provided invaluable help to CRIU project
+(in alphabetical order)
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+
+Andrew Morton
+David Miller
+Eric Dumazet
+Eric W. Biederman
+H. Peter Anvin
+Kees Cook
+KOSAKI Motohiro
+Li Yu
+Linus Torvalds
+Oleg Nesterov
+Serge Hallyn
+Tejun Heo