Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 28 Oct 1996 20:26:58 -0500 (EST) | From | Kernel Panic <> | Subject | Re: Core dumps & restarting |
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On Mon, 28 Oct 1996 psychos@xeo.net wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Oct 1996, Eduardo Diaz Comellas wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > I was wandering how to stop a process, reboot the machine, and > > restart that process. Is there a way to provoke a program to dump > > itself, and restart it after the reboot? > > > > Maybe we can define a new executable format for it to work ;-) > > > > Cheers! > > This would be practically impossible as you'd have to load the program > into the exact same memory space or all of its pointers would be bad... > Memory fragmentation issues would make it very hard to get any program to > occupy the exact same space it did before. > > The only way to really reload anything would be to dump the entire system > memory to a file and reload that. This could be useful if you wanted to do > something like boot into another operating system, or halt your computer > for whatever reason. > (Of course, real Linux users never reboot or shut down, except for a > hardware or kernel upgrade ;) > Wouldn't it be nice to have a modular kernel so you could upgrade without rebooting. Then we'd never have to reboot if you just had a very small kerneld and only had to reboot for major changes =}
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