On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 08:37:57PM +0000 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
Proinnsias Breathnach thought:
> 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 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.
OTOH, if you're just looking to log out, go home, ssh in and resume a
process rather than shutting down in between, use screen.
Conor
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