esky esky is a system for checkpointing and resuming Unix processes.
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esky is a system for checkpointing and resuming Unix processes. esky is an implementation of job freezing (checkpoint/resume) for Unix processes. It can save the state of a running process to disk then later resume it from the point it left off, possibly on a different machine. esky currently works on a limited but non-trivial range of processes. esky can cope with programs that open or mmap() files, including opening shared libraries with dlopen().esky is implemented entirely in userspace - no kernel patches or modules are required. It works under Linux 2.2 and Solaris 2.6 and is written to be independent of CPU type.Requirements:· Linux 2.2 + glibc 2.1 or Solaris 2.6 (with its standard libc). gcc is required to compile esky. You will also need the GNU linker to build esky, but gcc need not be set up to use GNU ld by default. Most of esky is compiled with the normal system linker, but GNU ld is invoked explicitly to compile the static agent. esky also requires glib-1.2.What's New in This Release:· The 'configure' script which was omitted from version 0.1 is now included, some minor mistakes in the README have been fixed, and esky now has a (minimal) home page.

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