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From: seth@sirius.ctr.columbia.edu (Seth Robertson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: background processes
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Date: 30 Dec 89 08:05:53 GMT
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In article <4030@brazos.Rice.edu> dfsun1!robison@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Bob Robison) writes:
>X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 230, message 3 of 13

>On an almost related topic..... What is the most convenient way (if any)
>to save the state of a stopped process to be restarted again after a
>scheduled system shutdown.

Why to do a checkpoint, of course.  I have a program which can do this
under limited circumstances.  (It currently doesn't work with Sun4s (needs
some assembler code for a better setjmp) and you have to reopen/relseek
any and all previously opened files)

For details, contact me.

                                        -Seth Robertson
                                         seth@ctr.columbia.edu