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Greg Lindahl glindahl at hpti.com
Sun Dec 10 14:39:10 PST 2000


>   i am working on the project similar to Epckpt but with a concept of
> loadable module. here i have a problem in handling the page requests.

Try this:

A checkpoint should be extremely similar to a corefile, with additional
information about open files, etc. So if you make the process dump core via
the usual mechanism, you aren't going to have a problem with page requests.
And you can avoid most of the architecture-specific hacks that are all over
Epckpt.

-- g





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