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From: cbp@icc.com (Chris Preston)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Restarting a process after a shutdown
Message-ID: <1990Sep20.013353.8023@icc.com>
Date: 20 Sep 90 01:33:53 GMT
References: <5759@ethz.UUCP> <1990Sep3.105523.8220@hq.demos.su> <933@hls0.hls.oz>
Organization: Intercomputer Communications Corp., Cincinnati, OH
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In article <933@hls0.hls.oz> george@hls0.hls.oz (George Turczynski) writes:
>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.

   Ahhh, but zey haf veys ...

>	
>> 	Lucky Hacking!
>
>This would be one HELL of a hack :-)
>
>> 	(It is NOT a joke!)
>
>Was this posted on April 1 ?
>

  One wonders if perhaps the Capatilists have simply been giving in to 
  SIGKILL out of weakness, while the Soviets had no such moral restraint :-)

  "Puny Amerikans, you let yourselves be used by the evil SIGKILL, while
  we have crushed it utterly!"

cbp
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