On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, James Turner wrote:
>ObCircle: Has anyone done anything like catching SIGSEGVs, writing a
>copyover file (assuring certain integrity first), and rebooting that
>way? No lost connections. This is a simplified version of using
>mprotect to ensure safe saves when segment violations happen, and
>would be a fairly easy first-step.
Erwin was already trying to do something like that with shared memory
segments so you wouldn't even have to re-load the world into memory. I
don't know how far along he progressed. The easiest method would be to
make a SIGSEGV handler just call copyover. Extra things probably
necessary.
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