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SubjectRe: Core dumps & restarting
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> I believe Emacs ships with an undump program.  I don't
> know if this have been ported to Linux, but it would be a nice weekend
> project for someone.

Actually it is a routine that is linked in called unexec(). It never
generates a core dump, just creates a new executable from the running
image and some magic smoke extracted from the old executable.

Various flavours of the routine exist for all Linux executable types.


r~

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