Re: checkpoint/restart milestone 1

[Hiten Pandya <hmp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
>
>     Yah.  Obviously the feature will start out being rather primitive, but
>     it should be possible to add functionality incrementally without having
>     to ripup the stuff already done.  I can envision (in the future) a 
>     program setting up a SIGCHKPT signal, for example, which would allow the
>     program to implement its own checkpoint restore function based on a
>     resource list given to it by the system.

	Ah, ok.  It could have something like checkpoint+restart
	functions which both get called during those respective
	operations as part of any additional initialisation that
	needs to be done.

	Regards,

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Hiten Pandya
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