PIDs in Checkpoint/Restart

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From: Heiko Bauke (heiko.bauke_at_physik.uni-magdeburg.de)
Date: Tue Mar 08 2005 - 11:55:32 PST

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    Dear BLCR developer,

the BLCR web page claims: BLCR restores the process ID (PID), thread
group ID (TGID), parent process ID (PPID), and process tree to old
state.

How does this work? Is this feature reliable?

Under Linux a PID is less than 2^31 and PIDs may be recycled. So let's
consider the following situation. A program with a PID of 42 was
checkpointed and suspended. Because the process is stopped, his PID may
be recycled. So what will happen, when BLCR restarts the suspended
process but its former PID 42 is now owned by another process?


	with regards

	Heiko

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