I ran across this interesting nugget today: http://cryopid.berlios.de <http://cryopid.berlios.de>

CryoPID allows you to capture the state of a running process in Linux and save it to a file This file can then be used to resume the process later on, either after a reboot or even on a different machine. ... Yes checkpointing software such as this is nothing new, but I was unable to find a tool that worked on Linux that did not require at least one of the following:

o root privileges o modifications to the kernel o recompiling/relinking your software o using an LD_PRELOAD when you start your program

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