Re: [RFC] a prototype checkpoint-restart using core files

Mark Kettenis
2005-11-07T20:22:23Z

> Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 14:07:24 -0500
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
>
> > If I read the code correctly, there is one rather serious limitation
> > though: restoring mmapped area's will fail if the same area isn't
> > mapped in the target process. Especially on systems that randomize
> > the location of mmapped memory this will make the usefullness of this
> > feature pretty limited :(.
>
> Why should it? The expected use is to restore these dumps into the
> same running session - just after stepping a bit. So unless you step
> across a very large free(), it should be fine.

Ah, somehow I forgar about the "same running session" part. Guess
that's one of the things that needs to be clearly documented then ;-).

Thanks Daniel,

Mark