[CALUG] Saving/restoring process states

[Rajiv Gunja]

Hi Jason,
Did you find the solution to this question? Were those 2 links the answer to
your question?
I am very interested to know.
Thanks

-GGR

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Rajiv G Gunja
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On 4/4/06, Jason C. Miller <jason.c.miller at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> My questions are rarely simple...and here's another one.  ;)
>
> Does anybody know of a method (or backdoor hack) that would allow a user
> to dump the current state of a process and then restore it later?  Kind of
> analogous doing a <ctrl>-Z and then an 'fg' later when you want to
> unsuspend the proc except, in my instance, the process would be kill()ed
> for later resurection.  Kinda like high-level context switch.
>
> If you're still confused as to what I mean, here's the example that
> started me wondering...
>
> I was using a game emulator that doesn't have a "save/restore game state"
> function.  I figured it wouldn't behoove me too terribly much to try to
> come up with something on my own.  Say I've been playing for hours and I'm
> tired.  I really don't want to use the game's actual "Save" utility
> because it might start me at some predetermined checkpoint the next time I
> started the game (eg: metroid, zelda).  So, I'd use this magical utility
> that I would like to save the current state of the process somewhere on
> non-volatile storage.  Later (after so many days and so many reboots), I
> restore that process and continue exactly where I left off.
>
> Questions:
> 1. Does UNIX already have a method for doing this that I don't know about?
> 2. My OS fundamentals are rusty.  Any reason why an OS wouldn't be able to
>    support this? (waiting for the OS profs out there to chime in on this
>    one).  I understand that register values and such would be a problem,
>    but if the process was suspended first, would that make a difference?
> 3. Any ideas anyone?
>
>                                     -jason
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