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From: george@hls0.hls.oz (George Turczynski)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Restarting a process after a shutdown
Summary: Nice try.
Message-ID: <933@hls0.hls.oz>
Date: 14 Sep 90 03:02:29 GMT
References: <5759@ethz.UUCP> <1990Sep3.105523.8220@hq.demos.su>
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In article <1990Sep3.105523.8220@hq.demos.su>, avg@hq.demos.su (Vadim G. Antonov) writes:
> In article <5759@ethz.UUCP> tilo@tilo@nmr.lpc.ethz.ch (Tilo Levante) writes:
> >Is there a way to save the status of a process and restart it
> >after the shutdown?
> 
> 	Of course, Unix allows you to do such things.
> 	You can do it as follows:
> 
> 	Write a signal handler for SIGKILL:

	... Interesting rest of solution deleted ...

This solution fails at step number one, as SIGKILL
cannot be caught (or ignored).  This is fundamental.
	
> 	Lucky Hacking!

This would be one HELL of a hack :-)

> 	(It is NOT a joke!)

Was this posted on April 1 ?

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