Re: Saving the state of the program ?

From: Benoit de Boursetty (debourse@email.enst.fr)
Date: Sun Nov 21 1999 - 14:47:56 MET


Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1999 14:47:56 +0100 (MET)
From: Benoit de Boursetty <debourse@email.enst.fr>
Subject: Re: Saving the state of the program ?
In-Reply-To: <199911191401.JAA06737@sarg.Ryerson.CA>

On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Dave Mason wrote:

> > Hi, Does anyone know how to core-dump a running program, reboot, and
> > then restart the program from where it was ?
>
> Emacs does that. Basically they do a core dump and then have a
> (somewhat system dependent) unexec routine that turns the core file
> into an executable.
>
> The scm scheme system uses this, too. That's probably the best place
> to look.

Thanks for the info. However, my question was about executables in the
general case...

Beno=EEt de Boursetty



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