> Also, talking with a friend a few days ago, he mentioned a feature of
> another unixoid os that allowed to take a snapshot of just one program
> (and dump it to a file). This would be quite useful for a number of
> things.. Is there anything similar in linux?
Yes, it is called 'core dump' ;-))
Seriously, though: there was a thread (in usenet?) some time ago about some
folks who 'compiled' Perl scripts by forcing them to coredump, and somehow
executing the core file. Does anyone know any more about this?
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