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Date:      Sat, 15 Mar 2003 12:29:01 +1030
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Daxbert <daxbert_news@dweebsoft.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Force core, then reload
Message-ID:  <20030315015901.GF90698@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <1047692099.3e728343c7c3f@ra.dweebsoft.com>
References:  <1047692099.3e728343c7c3f@ra.dweebsoft.com>

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On Friday, 14 March 2003 at 17:34:59 -0800, Daxbert wrote:
>
> 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?

Not currently.  The core dump doesn't contain a lot of state
information which you would need to resume execution.  In some cases,
it's completely impossible.  How do you reinstate a network
connection, for example?

Greg
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