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Can't checkpointing be done in user space?

Can't checkpointing be done in user space?

Posted Mar 6, 2009 8:14 UTC (Fri) by TRS-80 (subscriber, #1804)
In reply to: Can't checkpointing be done in user space? by giraffedata
Parent article: Checkpoint/restart tries to head towards the mainline

CyroPID is a user-space application that can checkpoint other processes without any special support. It doesn't work for all cases, although it's good enough for the "D'oh! I forgot to start this application inside screen(1)" use-case.


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