[ale] RealVideo (was Re: Adding checkpointing API to Linux kernel)

[Jason Boyles]

Anyone here know where the program to which Alan refers in this 
message might be downloaded?

----- Forwarded message from Alan Cox <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> -----

 From: alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
Subject: Re: Adding checkpointing API to Linux kernel
To: glew at cs.wisc.edu (Andy Glew)
Date: 	Mon, 18 Jan 1999 23:22:11 +0000 (GMT)
In-Reply-To: <36A3B44E.21A43982 at cs.wisc.edu> from "Andy Glew" at Jan 18, 99 04:23:11 pm

> Maybe the problem is just that batch queue developers like Werner,
> or the CONDOR folk, have been so hot on having solutions portable
> across all UNIXes that they have not been willing to make LINUX specific
> modifications.

The libdl stuff itself is pretty portable, although your additional
hooks do need to match the routines you are replacing yourself in structure
size and the like.

Things like the realvideo fixing program is a good example of stealing
the "open" syscall and altering its behaviour to work around a bug in RV

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