[H-GEN] Foregrounding a task

[Stephen Thorne]

On 4/24/06, Geoff Shang <geoff at hitsandpieces.net> wrote:
> For the record, it no longer shows up in "ps aux", so presumably the shell
> finally died.  So further discussion is somewhat academic, though I'd still
> like to know if there's a way to do this.  I've also managed to replicate
> the work in 1/3 the time it took to originally do.  And yes, it's saved.

There is an answer! It involes some devilishly tricky code by a guy
who works on the linux software suspend stuff.

http://cryopid.berlios.de/

cryopid the running process, then run the frozen process as a new
process. If it works you can just kill(1) the old process.
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Stephen Thorne
Development Engineer