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From: Elias Kouskoumvekakis <eliaskousk@gmail.com>
To: Pintu Agarwal <pintu.ping@gmail.com>
Cc: kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Re: Pause a process execution from external program
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2019 18:21:50 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAkou88o=Hi5Z1obYTynHYbUK9CCG0kSKkX89uQptcmGubvPAQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOuPNLifSHQmi+jCMzRGYz3kzct+NB_vyv-yiwL91adRZPkTrQ@mail.gmail.com>


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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.

Some other projects and how they compare to CRIU are listed below:

https://criu.org/Comparison_to_other_CR_projects

Best,
Elias

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-06-13 15:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ 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  7:52 ` Shyam Saini
2019-06-13 14:53   ` Pintu Agarwal
2019-06-13 19:43   ` Valdis Klētnieks
2019-06-17 12:20     ` Pintu Agarwal
2019-06-13 15:21 ` Elias Kouskoumvekakis [this message]
2019-06-17 12:19   ` Pintu Agarwal

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