Trigger checkpointing from within the application

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Tue Nov 23 08:28:00 PST 2004


On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 04:27:16PM +0100, Michael Neumann wrote:
> Matthew Dillon wrote:
> >    HEAD now has the checkpointing code fully integrated, including syscall
> >    and signal support, and manual pages which describe its operation.
> >
> >    See sys_checkpoint(2) and checkpt(1) for details.
> >
> >    NOTE: A full buildworld and buildkernel is required because these 
> >    commits
> >    have added a new system call.  An Incremental build will not work, 
> >    sorry.
> 
> At first... many thanks!
> 
> Hm, can I apply those patches to the Stable tag, or do I have to upgrade 
> to HEAD? How stable is HEAD? (I can live with a bit of unstability... 
> was running FBSD 5.x all the time ;-).

HEAD should be pretty stable ATM.

Joerg

> 
> Regards,
> 
>   Michael





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