Process Capturing
Report ID: TR-439-93Author: Iftode, Liviu / Li, Kai
Date: 1993-11-00
Pages: 5
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Abstract:
A challenge in mobile computing is to provide continuous interactions between users and their running applications. An interesting model is to allow a user's computing environment to migrate between a stationary computer and a mobile computer while applications are running. To achieve this goal, it is necessary to extend existing operating systems at several levels. This paper focuses on the process management level and proposes a simple mechanism called process capturing. We have implemented a experimental shell and showed that process capturing is a simple and effective mechanism to support computing environment migration.