Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: Adding checkpointing API to Linux kernel | Date | Mon, 18 Jan 1999 22:21:25 +0000 (GMT) |
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> Andy Glew writes about the need for an NT-like (gasp!) API in the > GNU/Linux that would all trapping of OS system calls without recompiling > code. (For use in checkpoint migration facilities, which we are > considering adding to GNU Queue.) Recompilation is necessary to use > these facilities with commercial apps. The scary thing is it appears to > be easier in NT than in GNU/Linux (see Andy's comments). Given NT's
You can already do it in Linux. LD_PRELOAD and LD_LIBRARY_PATH allow you to control and modify linkloading order. If you get a static linked commercial binary just ask them for the object modules under the LGPL terms the C library has to rebuild it (or just for a dynamic binary)
Alan
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