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Forking a New Process with the Predetermined PID Value during Process Migration

Published on November 2011 by Narayan A. Joshi, D. B. Choksi
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2nd National Conference on Information and Communication Technology
Foundation of Computer Science USA
NCICT - Number 2
November 2011
Authors: Narayan A. Joshi, D. B. Choksi
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Narayan A. Joshi, D. B. Choksi . Forking a New Process with the Predetermined PID Value during Process Migration. 2nd National Conference on Information and Communication Technology. NCICT, 2 (November 2011), 8-11.

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author = { Narayan A. Joshi, D. B. Choksi },
title = { Forking a New Process with the Predetermined PID Value during Process Migration },
journal = { 2nd National Conference on Information and Communication Technology },
issue_date = { November 2011 },
volume = { NCICT },
number = { 2 },
month = { November },
year = { 2011 },
issn = 0975-8887,
pages = { 8-11 },
numpages = 4,
url = { /proceedings/ncict/number2/4284-ncict011/ },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
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%I International Journal of Computer Applications
Abstract

In dynamic process migration, a process which is under execution is migrated from its originating machine to a new machine in order to uphold load-balancing in large distributed systems by allowing applications to access a large number of computing resources spread across the network and may provide significant improvements in overall system behavior. After migration of a process to the destination workstation, the resuming process must be allocated the same ‘process-id value’: the value which the process originally possessed on the source workstation before migration. This paper discusses a kernel-level solution for the problem of checkpointing the credential of ‘process identifier’ and to allocate a selected process-id value to a new process. We suggest a new system call setforkpid( ) to assign the specific process-id value of interest to the selected new process. An attempt is made to suggest a solution for the Linux kernel 2.6.25 environment.

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Load Balancing Operating Systems