On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 08:05:12PM +0000, Declan Houlihan wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> I'm wondering if there's any way to save a process to a file in Linux?
>> Is there any application out there that I could supply with a PID
> and it would stop that process from executing, take all the info
> for that running process, memory, register values etc, save it
> all out to a file so that at a later time / date I could just resume
> that process?
>I don't know of any utility currently out there to do it - although I'm
sure if one exists you'll get pointers galore to it shortly ...
I would however suggest looking at the 'refrigerator' code from swsusp
(swsusp.sf.net IIRC) the Software-Suspend code for Linux which
essentially does that for the entire machine - including kernel.
Might be worth a poke !
P
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