[DGD] Hotbooting

[Jared Maddox]

> Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 01:54:07 +0200
> From: "Felix A. Croes" <felix at dworkin.nl>
> To: dgd at dworkin.nl
> Subject: [DGD] Hotbooting
> Message-ID: <E1T698B-0003I5-UV at pattern>
>
> I have hotbooting working for Hydra on my development platform.  Expect
> a release sometime this week.
>
> With a "hot" reboot, connections and editor sessions will persist
> across a reboot: instead of exiting, the server will execute a
> designated binary.  Hotbooting allows the server to be upgraded as
> smoothly as an LPC object.  Clients don't have to be told about hot
> reboots, and don't have to reconnect.  When many clients are connected,
> the network traffic rush created by reestablishing many connections at
> the same time can be avoided.
>
> Regards,
> Felix Croes
>

Will this actually work on Windows? Last I heard all Windows sockets
were implemented at the app level.