Subject: Re: NetBSD 1.4.2 lockups from userspace
To: Gregory McGarry <g.mcgarry@ieee.org>
From: Frank van der Linden <frank@wins.uva.nl>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/22/2000 10:03:02
On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 09:38:50AM +1000, Gregory McGarry wrote:
> I'm interested in getting checkpointing working on NetBSD.  I've
> started by looking at userspace checkpointing.  I have code at
> http://www.sprc.qut.edu.au/~mcgarry/netbsd/checkpoint.tar.gz
> which preserves execution state in an (a.out) executable.  Upon
> execution the process recommences execution at the last checkpoint.

We already have a checkpointing package, in pkgsrc/devel/chkpt,
which is working. That might be a better starting point.

- Frank