background processes

[Seth Robertson]

In article <4030 at brazos.Rice.edu> dfsun1!robison at ames.arc.nasa.gov (Bob Robison) writes:
>X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 230, message 3 of 13

>On an almost related topic..... What is the most convenient way (if any)
>to save the state of a stopped process to be restarted again after a
>scheduled system shutdown.

Why to do a checkpoint, of course.  I have a program which can do this
under limited circumstances.  (It currently doesn't work with Sun4s (needs
some assembler code for a better setjmp) and you have to reopen/relseek
any and all previously opened files)

For details, contact me.

                                        -Seth Robertson
                                         seth at ctr.columbia.edu