[RFA] Linux Checkpoint/Restart, take 2 (footnote)
Daniel Jacobowitz
drow@false.org
Sat Dec 24 16:31:00 GMT 2005
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 01:52:03PM -0800, Michael Snyder wrote:
> But if we do that for a checkpoint fork, it's not gonna work,
> because when THAT process was created, it was in a function
> (fork) that was called by gdb. So its register state and stack
> are in the state as set up by Call-Function-By-Hand. In other
> words, when it was "frozen", it was before returning to CFBH,
> and therefore CFBH had not yet had a chance to restore the
> pre-CFBH register state.
Ah-hah! Thanks, that makes perfect sense.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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