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From: hutch@sdcsvax.UUCP (Jim Hutchison)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: something nasty in data, 4.2BSD
Message-ID: <1018@sdcsvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 30-Jul-85 07:44:24 EDT
Article-I.D.: sdcsvax.1018
Posted: Tue Jul 30 07:44:24 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 2-Aug-85 06:33:58 EDT
Organization: UCSD EMU Project (Educational Microcomputer Unix)
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4.2BSD, Vax 11/780 and Sun(4.2 rel1.2)

I am currently writing a pair of routines to dump and restore
the data and bss of a program.  The reason?  To checkpoint this
rather long running fractal program (higher resolutions will take
upwards of a fortnight to run on a sun, and with suntools...reboot!).

At the onset I tried to copy from etext to sbrk(0).  This was fine
for reading it out, but writing it back in seems not to work.
I realize that something readonly is in there <or some such :-(>,
anybody know exactly what?  If I could just find out, then its
just an  X + sizeof(imposing twit).

Anyone know what it/they is/are, and how big?  Looks like 48 bytes,
but the would just be a hack.  I am trying to avoid the gnu emacs
method.

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