Kip's checkpointing code is now in the tree.

Emiel Kollof coolvibe at hackerheaven.org
Mon Oct 20 06:13:42 PDT 2003


* Matthew Dillon (dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
>     Oh, and I will just add:  This is fric'n *COOL* feature!  Just
>     for yuchs, load up the module and start a cat /usr/share/dict/words
>     going, then ^E it.  Then ^C it and 'checkpt -r cat.ckpt' to restart
>     the one as of your checkpoint.  That is soooo cool.

Yeah, this works nicely. Great work!

I have a nit though: kill(1) doesn't seem to know about the checkpoint 
signals (I have to give them by hand by specifying signals 33 or 34). Maybe 
they can be added in?

Cheers,
Emiel
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