On Friday, 14 March 2003 at 17:34:59 -0800, Daxbert wrote:
>
> I'm looking to force a FreeBSD process to core, write it's core dump to disk,
> then at a later date, reload the image, and resume from where it left off.
>
> I know it's possible to force an application to core, but I'm not so certain
> about the reload and execute part.  Is this even remotely possible?

Not currently.  The core dump doesn't contain a lot of state
information which you would need to resume execution.  In some cases,
it's completely impossible.  How do you reinstate a network
connection, for example?

Greg
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