From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6317 invoked by alias); 20 Dec 2005 20:50:35 -0000 Received: (qmail 6108 invoked by uid 22791); 20 Dec 2005 20:50:34 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from romy.inter.net.il (HELO romy.inter.net.il) (192.114.186.66) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 20 Dec 2005 20:50:32 +0000 Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-91-180.inter.net.il [80.230.91.180]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.2-GA) with ESMTP id DFE78176 (AUTH halo1); Tue, 20 Dec 2005 22:50:15 +0200 (IST) Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 13:20:00 -0000 Message-Id: From: Eli Zaretskii To: Michael Snyder CC: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, msnyder@redhat.com In-reply-to: <43A777EE.50404@cisco.com> (message from Michael Snyder on Mon, 19 Dec 2005 19:18:06 -0800) Subject: Re: [RFA] Linux Checkpoint/Restart, take 2 Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <43A777EE.50404@cisco.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2005-12/txt/msg00252.txt.bz2 > Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 19:18:06 -0800 > From: Michael Snyder > CC: msnyder@redhat.com > > OK, superceding the previous submission, this patch includes > suggested mods from Eli and Tom Tromey. Fixed comment formatting, > tweaked documentation, added NEWS and gdbint.texinfo. Thanks! The documentation patches can go in, provided that you take care of the minor issues mentioned below. > + @var{checkpoint-id}. All program variables, registers, stack frames > + etc. will be returned to the values that they had when the checkpoint Need a "@:" after "etc.", since it doesn't end a sentence. For the same reason, there need to be only one space after it, not two. > + It won't ``un-write'' data from > + a file, but it will rewind the file pointer to the previous location, Really? isn't the file pointer stored inside some OS kernel data structure? > + from eg. a serial device can be removed from internal program buffers, Pleased add "@:" after "eg." (actually, I believe we need to say "e.g."). > + in gdb, eg. as corefiles, as forked processes, and as some opaque Same here. > + Some targets, eg. simulators, might have their own built-in And here. Thanks again for adding this great feature and for your efforts in providing good documentation.