[Openmcl-devel] forking to dump?

[Tobias C. Rittweiler]

Gary Byers <gb at clozure.com> writes:

>
> SAVE-APPLICATION basically does want to run in an environment where
> it's sure that no other threads are running (and __modifying the heap__
> while it's trying to write a consistent snapshot to disk.)  ...
>
> When this works, the parent (OS) process and all of its threads
> should be unaffected ...

But if S-A modifies the heap of the child, doesn't it also modify the
heap of the parent, possibly corrupting it?

  -T.