hi all
i am currenlty studying distributed os and i find the concept of process migration quiet interesting
could anybody plz tell how can we access a processes address space so that it can be transferred to anohter terminal on the network
thanks
linorg
LQ freak

Uf! Not easy stuff...

i am just shooting in the dark...dunno if i am correct or not..
but i guess if you are talking of the same process being copied with the whole of task struct loooking the same on both the terminals...i guess...for starters ...hand fork a process with the task struct duplicated to the tee..
and then do whatever is done while process creation....like putting that pid in a doubly linked list containing the processes,,,
putting it in the correct queue vis a vis its state in the task struct..
...and also , i think it would not be a bad idea to spawn this process in sleeping state so that kernel schedules normally without having to worry about the new process that has been created


i just hope that what i just blurted out makes some sense

hey shishir could u plz elaborate a bit more on that
linorg

what i mean to say is ...sort of replicate the fork code ..just that you will be having a lot of information alread handy with you...so instead of having to initialise the tak_struct iwth some values that the kernel does...you can initialise the task_struct with the values that you have with you...
and then just put the new process in the run queue...with the state as TASK_RUNNING, or put it in a wait state and then let the kernel schedule it...
earlier i said that sleeping is a better idea..i think putting it on the run queue would also not be that bad a thing...

so basically what i am saying is that you can wirte a new fork with limited functionality with the input being the task_struct that you have for the process already running at one place...

i hope i have helped...

//pseudo code
somethinng like this
my_fork(void *task_buf)
{
struct task_struct *my_task;
//look for a free pid
//take the first free..

//cast the input buffer into a task struct
my_task = (struct task_struct *)task_struct;

//update the my_task with the relevant new values like
new state, new pid.
//may be call schedule() after that...

}

hi
shishir thanx for the info
i guess this should provide me a break through
bye for now
linorg