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

[Chris Ricker]

On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Jason Boyles wrote:

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

http://onramp.i2k.com/~jeffd/rpopen/

though real men use dd ;-).

later,
chris

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Chris Ricker                                            kaboom at gatech.edu
                                               chris.ricker at m.cc.utah.edu

> 
> ----- 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
> 
> ----- End forwarded message -----
> 
> -- 
> Jason Boyles <jason at primefactor.com>
> "Bombay is 250ms from New York in the new world order." - Alan Cox