From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 14 17:35: 4 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C7A037B404 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 17:35:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from ra.dweebsoft.com (ra.dweebsoft.com [209.237.40.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3500443F75 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 17:35:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from daxbert_news@dweebsoft.com) Received: from ra.dweebsoft.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ra.dweebsoft.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h2F1Z0Mc051584 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 17:35:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from daxbert_news@dweebsoft.com) Received: (from http@localhost) by ra.dweebsoft.com (8.12.6/8.12.3/Submit) id h2F1Yxgb051583 for questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 17:34:59 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: ra.dweebsoft.com: http set sender to daxbert_news@dweebsoft.com using -f Received: from 63.67.101.5 ( [63.67.101.5]) as user daxbert@localhost by ra.dweebsoft.com with HTTP; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 17:34:59 -0800 Message-ID: <1047692099.3e728343c7c3f@ra.dweebsoft.com> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 17:34:59 -0800 From: Daxbert To: "" Subject: Force core, then reload MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.1 X-Originating-IP: 63.67.101.5 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm looking to force a FreeBSD process to core, write it's core dump to disk, then at a later date, reload the image, and resume from where it left off. I know it's possible to force an application to core, but I'm not so certain about the reload and execute part. Is this even remotely possible? --daxbert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message