From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 14 04:15:03 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13E7E16A4CF for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 04:15:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FEDD43D2F for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 04:15:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from zbeeble@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 58so704574wri for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 20:14:59 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=L0y36jW6fu+T0iLl+3NTMvXPgV4vTELLium9H2JhLjw2Qj38rnQIwTNLQmBOVDKZftgxUyA5o37aQCEdtbOkepdiQ6lkMH4qNZ9QW3Zl0YRdYiKjAUhfV/hWvRe+RrkDqqnhdvxE/Qz1wBde3LOnB4txit+dM9tcLu3ftph929g= Received: by 10.54.2.54 with SMTP id 54mr29194wrb; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 20:14:59 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.45.13 with HTTP; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 20:14:59 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <5f67a8c405011320144fedeb49@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 23:14:59 -0500 From: Zaphod Beeblebrox To: kamalp@acm.org In-Reply-To: <20050114025815.99191.qmail@web52710.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20050114020516.GD26802@afields.ca> <20050114025815.99191.qmail@web52710.mail.yahoo.com> cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org cc: Allan Fields cc: Siddharth Aggarwal Subject: Re: process checkpoint restore facility now in DragonFly BSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Zaphod Beeblebrox List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 04:15:03 -0000 Having a process (or full system) checkpoint facility would make the implementation of suspend-to-disk rather trivial --- which is a much desired feature.