Subject: Re: persistent/restorable unix procs?
To: Mark W. Eichin <eichin@kitten.gen.ma.us>
From: Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org>
List: current-users
Date: 11/29/1995 06:09:34
Also, there is Condor, from the University of Michigan perhaps?  I
can't remember, but that is the name.

>There was a university project (I forget the name, but I think it
>began with a P, and it was done sometime around 1987-89) which
>modified libc to save away file descriptor state; you could then dump
>the image and have enough to restore later. (At least I think that was
>enough.) At the time, it meant relinking the program -- but these
>days, anything that matters has shared libraries, which simplifies the
>effort. Perhaps someone else will recall the name of the project I'm
>thinking of.
>			_Mark_ <eichin@kitten.gen.ma.us>
>			The Herd of Kittens

--Michael

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