freezing a process 2688

On Mon, 09 Oct 2006 00:12:27 -0400, CBFalconer staggered into the Black Sun and said:

What wraps? The OP's NNTP client was putting out lines of ~70 chars followed by lines of ~30 chars. It looked weird, yeah, but it wasn't the problem you described.

This is true, unfortunately. Using suspend-to-RAM or suspend-to-disk saves *everything*, which avoids the pointer trouble that CBFalconer mentioned. If you try to do this for just one process, you will almost certainly run into trouble with the vtables.

The vast majority of programs that need to do it can already save their states and restore them with minimal hbuttle. The OP should post the name of the program he'd like to save-restore, so that people who've used that program can offer advice on how to make it behave the way he wants. If the program's a piece of custom code he wrote, he should write up a couple of save() and restore() functions.

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