Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!shadooby!samsung!usc!snorkelwacker!spdcc!merk!xylogics!cloud9!jjmhome!m2c!umvlsi!dime!dime.cs.umass.edu!moss From: moss@takahe.cs.umass.edu (Eliot &) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: "Check pointing" on BSD Unix (or Ultrix) Message-ID: Date: 7 Nov 89 13:34:26 GMT References: <1326@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu> Sender: news@dime.cs.umass.edu Reply-To: Moss@cs.umass.edu Followup-To: comp.unix.wizards Organization: Dept of Comp and Info Sci, Univ of Mass (Amherst) Lines: 13 In-reply-to: battle@alphard.cs.utk.edu's message of 6 Nov 89 19:36:41 GMT I would think it would work just to type the correct interrupt character to force the process to dump core. That's the *easy* part. The *hard* part is re-establishing the process's open files, network connections, children, etc. Unless the process does not deal with files, I would not expect dumping core to work. Eliot -- J. Eliot B. Moss, Assistant Professor Department of Computer and Information Science Lederle Graduate Research Center University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003 (413) 545-4206; Moss@cs.umass.edu