Re: [RFA] Linux Checkpoint/Restart, take 2

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>]

> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 19:18:06 -0800
> From: Michael Snyder <michsnyd@cisco.com>
> 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.