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Re: Dumper problems and a possible solutions


From: Rich Felker
Subject: Re: Dumper problems and a possible solutions
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 11:10:55 -0400
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 06:03:33PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 08:32:55 +0400
> > From: Dmitry Antipov <address@hidden>
> > Cc: address@hidden
> > 
> > What do you think about this project: 
> > http://dmtcp.sourceforge.net/index.html?
> > 
> >  From their point of view, Emacs dumping is just a checkpointing in
> > the very special moment (when all Lisp libraries are loaded).
> 
> Yes, but their main focus is to preserve the system-side parts of the
> program, like IP buffers and file descriptors, something that we
> certainly don't want.

Indeed, this is why I consider emacs-style dumping and checkpointing
as essentially different problem domains.

Rich



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