[plug] funny process name

[Craig Ringer]

>>Plus I want to be able to implement software suspend in user space by
>>	tar cvf /suspend.tar /proc
>>and then in my init scripts
>>	cd /proc; tar xvf /suspend.tar
> 
> What a neat idea! I could tar the process at home, stick it on a
> floppy, and then run it at work! No more incompatabilities between
> versions!

Actually, some of the checkpointing work being done for linux at the 
moment will allow things disturbingly like this - checkpoint a process, 
copy it to another machine, and resume it. Keep backups of long-running 
batch processes, etc. Weird stuff.

Craig Ringer


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