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Re: killer net app



There is a function specifly for that in perl
it's called dump when you call it, it generate
a core dump, and the other command is called 
dedump (or somthing like that) which will retrive
the data from the core dump and start working from
the place it was dumped.

On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, Ira Abramov wrote:

> On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
> 
> > Ira Abramov wrote:
> > 
> > > (note:
> > > if anyone has programming frenzy burning in his bones and nothing to
> > > do
> > > right now I have a REALLY cool idea I have no idea how to implement...
> > > something many linuxers will be thankfull for for years to come :-)
> > 
> > Ae you going to leave us in suspense? ;-)
> 
> :-) "I love to turn you on" - The Beatles
> 
> ok, idea is not mine, it waswhispered over to me last month at the SVLUG
> meeting in San Jose by Jim Dennis, Aka the Answer guy on the Linux
> Gazette:  http://www.linux.org.il/LDP/LDP/LG/issue19/lg_answer19.html
> 
> His workplace machine is still a 386 with 32 megs of RAM (some people are
> masochists). like many programmers, he logs in, fires up Emacs and does
> everything from there (shells, editing, HTML composing, programming and
> compiling, mailing etc.)
> 
> one bright day, about a year or more ago, he started going home with a
> laptop from work, to work remotely. after having to sync back to where he
> was at work each time he logged in a few times, he switched to working
> with screen(1). this little proggie lets you detach a working session from
> the TTY and reattach to it at a later time, from a different TTY if
> needed.... no need to save your files, no need to exit Emacs and reenter
> it, just reattach and continue where you left off, then detach and
> continue at work tommorow morning...
> 
> ok, the idea is this... what if you could detach an entire process, along
> with memory allocation and open files, freeze it into a file and thaw it
> on a different machine?
> 
> uses? countless... move a compilation to a faster machine after it
> started, maybe even on the fly (reminds anyone in huji of Prof. Barak's
> monster?). freeze your sessions in the X windows and continue at home at
> leisure. freeze a process at a specific breakpoint, then thaw it at that
> point again and again for various break points (worth gold for beta
> testing uses), send someone a program's demo as a started process without
> a binary he can use and reinstall, and probably a thousand crazy uses in
> client-server load balancing circus acts...
> 
> for all I know there may be someone working on something like that as we
> speak, I think it's worth donating effort into.
> 
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