Re: Adding checkpointing API to Linux kernel

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 19 Jan 1999 00:19:21 +0000 (GMT)


> It's been running like this for three years. I released the source code
> under GPL in November 1995. As far as I know, three people in the entire
> world have ever run it, counting me.

Thats cos a million of us never knew it existed. I'd practically kill for
that stuff ( Not quite , imagine a trail of slightly bruised people in my
wake). Its value to authors could be huge.

> shifted again and again. The replayer needs a table of every system call
> and how it affects memory, and that table needs more entries every week
> (thanks to ioctl). So I have a great demo, if you have 1.3.42 kernel
> headers to compile it against.

This is something I've been pondering - strace has the same problems - it
does suggest their should be a single good syscall/ioctl definition somewhere

Alan

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