[clug] Random Thought: support for Hot-code swap in the kernel

[Peter Barker]

On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, jm wrote:

> How would you pick where to start? Have set of marshall points though out 
> your program at which the program may update and resume at? and this 
> information is conveyed to new version which resumes at that point. This

You'd start by looking at Tridge's chess server code, I'd guess :-)

http://chess.samba.org/
"transparent server reload (upgrade without disturbing connections or 
games)"


I vaguely recollect there's some sort of code-generator involved to form 
the relevant abstraction.

Yours,
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