From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 19 03:59:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA18046 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 19 Mar 1997 03:59:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from hda.hda.com (ip76-max1-fitch.ziplink.net [199.232.245.76]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id DAA18040 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 1997 03:59:24 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dufault@localhost) by hda.hda.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id FAA23788; Wed, 19 Mar 1997 05:16:11 -0500 From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199703191016.FAA23788@hda.hda.com> Subject: Re: dup3() - I've thought it over and decided... In-Reply-To: <20682.858762363@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Mar 19, 97 01:06:03 am" To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 05:16:10 -0500 (EST) Cc: mpp@freefall.freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > How about going more along the checkpoint/restart route? Suspend > > the process, checkpoint it, and on restart you can reconnect stdin/out/err > > to either the current tty, or to another file. Reconnecting to > > a pipeline should also be possible. I can dig up the USENIX paper > > the Cray guys wrote on this if you like :-). > > Does the checkpoint feature allow you to complete snapshot process > state? That's another item on my wishlist. :-) > > I wouldn't mind reading that paper, if you can dig it up. If you do some searches on checkpointing you should find some on line articles about issues involved in checkpointing processes on Unix. I stumbled on them once when looking for something else and perused them a little since I had once been involved in evaluating doing that for a minisuper (didn't do any more than that though). Obviously, long running computational environments want a fairly transparent checkpoint/restart. -- Peter Dufault (dufault@hda.com) Realtime Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936