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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Save process snapshot to disk?!
From:       Sven Radej <sven () lisa ! exp ! univie ! ac ! at>
Date:       1999-11-01 9:32:44
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Hi (Matthias E.)

If you remember SM discussion in Erlangen, you said that W2K might use this for
SM. Well, here it is for Unix:

(from Freshmeat):

esky is an implementation of job freezing (checkpoint/resume) for Unix
processes. It can save the state of a running process to disk then later resume
it from the point it left off, possibly on a different machine. esky currently
works on a limited but non-trivial range of processes. esky can cope with
programs that open or mmap() files, including opening shared libraries with
dlopen(). esky is implemented entirely in userspace - no kernel patches or
modules are required. It works under Linux 2.2 and Solaris 2.6 and is written
to be independent of CPU type.


http://cap.anu.edu.au/~dgibson/esky.html

Just a thought -not sure is it really useful for us.
 -- 
Sven Radej      radej@kde.org
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