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		icebraining on July 19, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A subsystem to restrict programs into a “reduced f... You can, there's a process freezing utility for Linux; I'll see if I can remember its name. EDIT: Here is it: CryoPID (https://github.com/maaziz/cryopid) CryoPID allows you to capture the state of a running process in Linux and save it to a file. This file can then be used to resume the process later on, either after a reboot or even on another machine.

vezzy-fnord on July 19, 2015 [–]

cryopid and cryopid2 are long abandoned, possibly not working on 3.x and 4.x kernels anymore.

Modern and more sophisticated equivalents are CRIU and DMTCP.

sciurus on July 19, 2015 | [–]

http://criu.org/Main_Page

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