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From: Pintu Agarwal <pintu.ping@gmail.com>
To: Elias Kouskoumvekakis <eliaskousk@gmail.com>
Cc: Kernelnewbies <kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org>
Subject: Re: Pause a process execution from external program
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 17:49:18 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOuPNLh4TXWDX_GFChLrsLXCaPdxO7RwN=J0SYD-U=Z2G-DYzw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAkou88o=Hi5Z1obYTynHYbUK9CCG0kSKkX89uQptcmGubvPAQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 8:52 PM Elias Kouskoumvekakis
<eliaskousk@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 10:45 AM Pintu Agarwal <pintu.ping@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > For some reason, I want to halt/pause the execution (for some
> > specified time) of a running process/thread (at some location),
> > without modified the source, may be by firing some events/signals from
> > an another external program, by specifying the address location or a
> > line number.
> >
> > Is this possible ?
>
> Hi Pintu,
>
> have you looked at the CRIU project which can do a checkpoint / restore of a running process?
>
> https://criu.org/Main_Page
>
> I think it's what you need, although I've never used it myself.
>
OK. Thank you so much I will surely look into it.
Currently, we are exploring using ptrace.

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      reply	other threads:[~2019-06-17 12:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-13  7:43 Pause a process execution from external program Pintu Agarwal
2019-06-13  7:43 ` Pintu Agarwal
2019-06-13  7:52 ` Shyam Saini
2019-06-13  7:52   ` Shyam Saini
2019-06-13 14:53   ` Pintu Agarwal
2019-06-13 14:53     ` Pintu Agarwal
2019-06-13 19:43   ` Valdis Klētnieks
2019-06-13 19:43     ` Valdis Klētnieks
2019-06-17 12:20     ` Pintu Agarwal
2019-06-17 12:20       ` Pintu Agarwal
2019-06-13 15:21 ` Elias Kouskoumvekakis
2019-06-17 12:19   ` Pintu Agarwal [this message]

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