Re: Remote fork() and Parallel Programming

=?iso-8859-1?Q?Lars_Marowsky-Br=E9e?= (lmb@pointer.teuto.de)
Fri, 12 Jun 1998 22:21:52 +0200


On 1998-06-12T11:12:24,
Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com> said:

> : a process, you have to snapshot all related processes and the state of
> : the kernel. It's a much better idea to have general persistency and take
> : periodic system-wide snapshots.
>
> Yup. But throw a cluster into the mix and think about saving the state
> of all those sockets. It's doable, just a pain in the butt.

I am dreaming of doing an "atomic" cp /proc/pid/<> newhost:/proc/ *g*

Seriously: Shouldn't be all information relating to a process and it's
resource reside in /proc? This might be the first step to get process
migration going, since then you could implement a clean interface.

(You can implement this using other tricks, but using the proc fs has a
certain "clean" and consistent appeal to me)

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