Re: Remote fork() and Parallel Programming

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 13 Jun 1998 15:54:36 +0100 (BST)


> Principle 2: Research. How do you expect not to completely fsck something
> up if you live in a box? Don't just make up stuff, research what
> people have done prior and determine what the heck is going on.

Ok given #2 explain the questions below

> First, checkpoint/restart, does anyone else support it? If they do, how? More
> importantly, is it an integral architectural feature? How much work would have to go
> into Linux to support such things as they are?

See #2

> What about an abstraction layer? You could have processes run within an environment

See #2

> We all can agree that you cannot checkpoint "sockets" for later use, therefore their

No we cant - see #2

Its all in the literature and OS manuals ;)

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