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On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 03:44:30PM +0100, Wolfgang Solfrank wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> > Removal of the brk() and sbrk() interfaces, or actually: stop using the
> > break() system call for process heap.
>=20
> What about programs that dump themselves for later restart (like emacs,
> TeX etc.)?
>=20
> Those programs dump the memory from the start of the data section
> up to the break value as the data section of the new executable.
> How would this be handled in the new world?

And (sort of) pkgsrc/devel/chkpt

Hm. In ELF world, they could just dump multiple data sections at multiple
offsets, as needed ... but tracking what is needed is likely to be a major
rewriting effort.

	-is

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