From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Michael Snyder <michsnyd@cisco.com>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] a prototype checkpoint-restart using core files
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 04:01:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051107001937.GG19200@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43696953.9090601@cisco.com>
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 05:35:15PM -0800, Michael Snyder wrote:
> Folks, this isn't for commit, just for discussion.
>
> Attached is an experimental patch that adds a command
> "restore-core-file" or "rcore", which is the inverse of
> "generate-core-file" (gcore). Instead of copying the
> memory and register state of a process into a file,
> it takes an existing corefile, and copies its memory
> and register state into the child process.
>
> The idea was to experiment with the concept of doing
> checkpoint and restore, by using a corefile as the
> checkpoint file. Obviously it has limitations --
> it doesn't save any kernel state, I/O state etc.
> Just user state.
I've got to say that this is amazingly cool.
Afraid that's all the comments I have time for at the moment :-)
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-07 0:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-03 1:55 Michael Snyder
2005-11-07 4:01 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2005-11-07 14:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-07 19:43 ` Mark Kettenis
2005-11-07 19:50 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-11-07 20:56 ` Michael Snyder
2005-11-07 20:43 ` Michael Snyder
2005-11-07 22:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-08 6:05 ` Michael Snyder
2005-11-18 8:18 Michael Snyder
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