Re: A possible idea for Linux: Save running programs to disk

[Bodo Eggert <harvested.in.lkml@7eggert.dyndns.org>]

Bernard Blackham <bernard@blackham.com.au> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 08:57:26AM -0400, Ed Tomlinson wrote:

>> Is there any kernel api that adding would make cryopid more
>> dependable/cleaner?
> 
> Currently a fair bit of information is obtained by injecting code
> into the process's memory space, executing it, and reaping out the
> results (eg, termcaps, file offsets, fcntl states, locks, signal
> actions, etc).  Can't think of ways to make it cleaner off the top
> of my head, but I'm open to ideas.

What about using an uml wrapper + vncserver? This would give you a complete
virtual environment, and if you can make uml suspend-to-disk, you've got
most of it. (I admit I never tried uml, so this is just a guess.)
Off cause the network connections will still time out etc etc, but that's
nothing you can do about that.

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