• [$] CRIB: checkpoint/restore in BPF

    From LWN.net@1337:1/100 to All on Wed Aug 7 15:45:05 2024
    [$] CRIB: checkpoint/restore in BPF

    Date:
    Wed, 07 Aug 2024 15:35:18 +0000

    Description:
    The desire for the ability to checkpoint a process to record its state in
    a form that can be restarted at a future time on Linux is almost as old as Linux itself. See, for example, this announcement of a checkpoint
    project that appeared in LWN in 1998. While working solutions exist, they
    can be somewhat fragile and difficult to use; it is not surprising that
    some people are interested in finding a better alternative. A current
    effort goes by the name CRIB,
    for Checkpoint/Restore in (naturally) BPF. It is far from clear that CRIB
    will replace the existing solutions, but it is an interesting look at a different way of solving the problem.

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    Link to news story:
    https://lwn.net/Articles/984313/


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