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Re: help with unexec

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From: John T Kohl
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 17:59
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In article <1992Jul28.014955.21272@ulowell.ulowell.edu> dnicodem@cs.ulowell.edu (David Nicodemus) writes:

> I am looking for a way to force a program out of execution, and save an image
> of the program that can be restarted from the same point at a later time. 

You might look at the Condor software from the University of Wisconsin
(see the Winter '92 USENIX proceedings for a description of the
mechanism and pointers to other work).  It requires a "well-behaved"
application (e.g. doesn't do things which are hard to reconstitute, like
use the network, pipes, etc.).
--
John Kohl <jtkohl@cs.berkeley.edu>
UC Berkeley CS grad student
Member of the League for Programming Freedom--details: league@prep.ai.mit.edu
(The above opinions are MINE.  Don't put my words in somebody else's mouth!)
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