> My personal feeling is that processes wil have to be "objectified" in
> the same way that files are "objects". So just like we have different
>
> At any rate, once you have this, you have an object that you can request
> to save its state and move. You'll still need to do some work for open
> files (pipes/sockets/files/devices).
This sounds a lot better. Requesting to the process itself
means that things can be done (a'la kerneld) in _userspace_,
avoiding too big a kernel.
Of course, your point that we don't really need this
still stands :)
Rik.
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