Re: PIDs in Checkpoint/Restart

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jcduell_at_lbl_dot_gov
Date: Tue Mar 08 2005 - 14:46:22 PST

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    > So what will happen, when BLCR restarts the suspended
> process but its former PID 42 is now owned by another process?

A restart will not succeed if the PID is already in use (this is
documented in the cr_restart.1 man page).  It is up to the system
administrator or user to then make the choice to kill the process which
has "stolen" the pid, or not.

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Jason Duell             Future Technologies Group
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Tel: +1-510-495-2354    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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