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Subject: Re: Is it possible to store process state and then restore process
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bernd Walter" <ticso@cicely5.cicely.de>
To: "Andrey Simonenko" <simon@comsys.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua>
Cc: <ticso@cicely.de>; <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 12:23 PM
Subject: Re: Is it possible to store process state and then restore process


> But that's the main problem:
> You almost ever have shared filedescriptors (stdin, ...).
> Such a mechanism wouldn't work without the application support unless
> you build the complete support into the kernel.

I try to consider very simple example, because my knowledges in
this field are limited.

> You could dump core and convert the dump into an object format.

That is, can I say that it is possible with FreeBSD to dump process image
(allocated memory, changed data segment, stack, PCB, ...) to a file and then
restore this image?



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