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From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
To: drow@false.org
Cc: michsnyd@cisco.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com, eliz@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] a prototype checkpoint-restart using core files
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 20:22:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200511072021.jA7KLanV015248@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051107190724.GA19531@nevyn.them.org> (message from Daniel Jacobowitz on Mon, 7 Nov 2005 14:07:24 -0500)

> Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 14:07:24 -0500
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> 
> > If I read the code correctly, there is one rather serious limitation
> > though: restoring mmapped area's will fail if the same area isn't
> > mapped in the target process.  Especially on systems that randomize
> > the location of mmapped memory this will make the usefullness of this
> > feature pretty limited :(.
> 
> Why should it?  The expected use is to restore these dumps into the
> same running session - just after stepping a bit.  So unless you step
> across a very large free(), it should be fine.

Ah, somehow I forgar about the "same running session" part.  Guess
that's one of the things that needs to be clearly documented then ;-).

Thanks Daniel,

Mark

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-11-07 20:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-03  1:35 Michael Snyder
2005-11-07  0:19 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-11-07  4:40   ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-07 18:57     ` Mark Kettenis
2005-11-07 19:07       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-11-07 19:50         ` Michael Snyder
2005-11-07 20:22         ` Mark Kettenis [this message]
2005-11-07 20:26           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-11-07 23:56             ` Michael Snyder
2005-11-08  0:34               ` Soam Vasani
2005-11-08  0:43                 ` Michael Snyder
2005-11-07 19:43       ` Michael Snyder
2005-11-07 20:56       ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-08  0:10         ` Michael Snyder
2005-11-16  0:37 ` Stan Shebs
2005-11-18  3:37 Michael Snyder

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