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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2011, 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
 
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 [[!tag open_issue_documentation open_issue_hurd]]
 
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 # IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-11-18
 
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     <etenil> ah yeah I thought so :)
 
 
-# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-11-19
+# Reincarnation Server
+
+## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-11-19
 
     <chromaticwt> will hurd ever have the equivalent of a rs server?, is that
       even possible with hurd?
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     <spiderweb> neat, thanks
     <braunr> actually it's not that old at all
     <braunr> around 2007
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+
+## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-08-26
+
+    < teythoon> I came across some paper about process reincarnation and
+      created a little prototype a while back:
+    < teythoon> http://darnassus.sceen.net/gitweb/teythoon/reincarnation.git/
+    < teythoon> and I looked into restarting the exec server in case it
+      dies. the exec server is an easy target since it has no state of its own
+    < teythoon> the only problem is that there is no exec server around to
+      start a new one
+    < youpi> teythoon: there could be another exec server only used to
+      (re)start the exec server
+    < youpi> that other exec server could even be restarted by the normal exec
+      server
+    < pinotree> what about a watchdog server?
+    < teythoon> youpi: yes, I had the same idea, i actually patched /hurd/init
+      to do that, it's just not yet working
+    < pinotree> make it watch other servers (exec included), and make exec
+      watch the watchdog only
+    < teythoon> pinotree: look at my prototype, there is a watchdog server
+    < braunr> teythoon: what's the point of reincarnation without persistence ?
+    < teythoon> braunr: there is no point in reincarnation w/o persistence of
+      course
+    < teythoon> my prototype does a limited form of persistence
+    < teythoon> the point was to see whether I can mitm a translator and
+      restart it on demand and to gain more insight into the whole translator
+      mechanism
+    < braunr> teythoon: ok
+    < teythoon> braunr: see the readme, it retains state across reincarnations
+    < braunr> teythoon: how ?
+    < teythoon> braunr: the server can store a checkpoint using the
+      reincarnation_checkpoint procedure
+    < teythoon>
+      http://darnassus.sceen.net/gitweb/teythoon/reincarnation.git/blame/HEAD:/reincarnation.defshttp://darnassus.sceen.net/gitweb/teythoon/reincarnation.git/blame/HEAD:/reincarnation.defs
+    < teythoon> uh >,< sorry, pasted twice
+    < braunr> oh ok