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Can't checkpointing be done in user space?

Can't checkpointing be done in user space?

Posted Feb 26, 2009 20:13 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Can't checkpointing be done in user space? by lwithers
Parent article: Checkpoint/restart tries to head towards the mainline

Well, yes, but one application I'd like to see (when they get
suspension/resumption of network connections working) is the ability to
suspend/resume a system which is displaying X apps some of which are
running on another machine, without using some sort of proxying layer like
xpra.

It's likely to be tricky...


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Can't checkpointing be done in user space?

Posted Feb 27, 2009 3:32 UTC (Fri) by spotter (subscriber, #12199) [Link]

see the original zap paper

http://www.ncl.cs.columbia.edu/publications/osdi2002_zap.pdf

section 4.5

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