From: utzoo!decvax!genrad!mit-eddi!smh
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re: saving processes during shutdown
Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.110
Posted: Wed Apr 13 07:29:09 1983
Received: Fri Apr 15 01:54:02 1983
References: iuvax.368

Several of us at MIT have recently been giving this problem
some thought, but no real solutions yet.  For now, you might
think about the following additional complexities:
	1) It would be nice if checkpointing of large jobs
	   could happen regularly, not just when actively
	   commissioned by a system shutdown.
	2) Remember that it is idiomatic un Unix for several
	   processes to communicate via pipes.  It would be
	   nice if the state of such a collection of processes,
	   pipes, and perhaps even signals could be restarted
	   as well as single `simple' processes.
I fear it ain't gonna be simple.
				- Steve Haflich
				  MIT Experimental Music Studio
				  ...!genrad!mit-eddie!mit-ems!smh