Re: Adding checkpointing API to Linux kernel

Rogier Wolff (R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl)
Tue, 19 Jan 1999 13:35:10 +0100 (MET)

Alan Cox wrote:
> > 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

Strace should take a config file that tells it the names of the
system calls, the number of arguments, and how to print them (and when).

I tried implementing that 8-5 years ago, but got bored/distracted
before it was finished.

Roger.

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