On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> >
> > Let's face it, we're not going to _ever_ checkpoint any kind of general
> > case process. Just TCP makes that fundamentally impossible in the general
> > case, and there are lots and lots of other cases too (just something as
> > totally _trivial_ as all the files in the filesystem that don't get rolled
> > back).
>
> What do you mean here? Unlinked files?
Or modified files, or anything else. "External state" is a pretty damn
wide net. It's not just TCP sequence numbers and another machine.
Linus
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